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Is it SpyWare,Malware or Virus Attack

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samirbole Original post #1
Oct 5, 2004 at 3:36 PM
Dear friends
i'm currently using win2003 with latest updates from microsoft website. yesterday i noticed something very disurbing

whenver itried something in run command, or try searching using google or try and enter any text either in word ,notepad it starts typring "x" automatically. on the text fields. i scanned for viruses using NAV 2005, chckd for syware using spybot and spysweeper. no threats found et all. this problem even exisits in dos prompt.
does anybody have answer to this.
thanx and regards
samirbole
NikhilVerma
Oct 5, 2004 at 7:56 PM
Most Probably your X key of the keyboard is jammed...
Jus turn your keyboard upside down and give it a good 'ol spanking... ;)
it_waaznt_me
Oct 5, 2004 at 11:45 PM
Nikhil is right ... I too suspect its an hardware problem ....