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#1 Pasidon

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 03:17 AM

This just happened... well I just discovered it. No joke... I have somehow got the weirdest... well I think it's a virus. Has anyone ever heard of a virus or something that overrides a key on your keyboard and imputs something else? My seven key is corrupt...

http://home.att.net/..._generator.html

Thats what pops up every time I press my seven key... it makes no sense. I don't know what a... circuit library or a dial tone generator is, but I haven't touched the link. Probably another viruses no doubt. I wouldn't recommend anyone else press it either unless you're really really sure its not anything... but I'm sort of curious and would like to know. Has anyone heard of anything like this / know how to fix it? It really is annoying...

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 03:40 AM

If you think it's a virus, have you tried the obvious?

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 04:40 AM

Well... Suggestions Wulfy? I respect the hate mail, but lets leave it elsewhere.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 05:01 AM

Are you being this dense on purpose or are you really that dim? That aside, have you run complete virus and malware scans? That's your starting point.

If those come back clean, you begin looking into other possibilities.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 05:56 AM

Real dim.

Yea, checked with anti-virus software and came up clean. That's where I got to thinkin' it wasn't a virus, and it's the first one I got too since I had my laptop and had it about a year now. I find it odd...

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 06:24 AM

Thats strange.

What operating system are you running?
do you have the latest/up to date virus scanners and whatnot?

I know you can configure shortcut keys but thats usually linked to ctrl+*whateverkey*
(eg. ctrl+C for copy, ctrl+A selects all, etc)

Maybe some virus or something has somehow set a shortcut for your 7 key to open that link
(or someone has manually done it just to annoy you/some other unknown reason :X a pesky roommate or family member perhaps?)

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 06:57 AM

or 7 is also a function key.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 07:48 AM

Got Vista. And used the default Vista virus scanner that usually did the trick on my old computer, so I don't question it.
Yea, short-cut / function keys sound like something that could have done it. Never used em', so need to know how exactly. Should figure that out...
And no-one I know has the brains to manually reconfigure a keyboard button. Not even me.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 02:33 PM

Try AVG and spybot, and use those to scan your system. They're pretty good scanners, and above all they're free.
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Posted 05 June 2009 - 05:17 PM

AVG. Pah.

If anything, use avast! for a boot up scan and Avira for every day use.
PROTIP - Don't run both at the same time. Evilness occurs.

Secondly. Run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. It has a much deeper scan and finds more buried objects than Spybot. Not saying Spybot is bad but MBAM is best for those really deep scans.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 05:10 AM

Yea, Spybot is what I use. I have Avast... never use it though. Didn't think it was better than Spybot. I'll give it a go though.

http://home.att.net/..._generator.html

Sort of gettin' used to it actually. :p

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Posted 10 June 2009 - 01:57 PM

Try Ad-Aware, use Hijackthis (and other anti-malware tools), also running deep test with Avast! is good thing.

I know there is some special antivirus which is deeper than all of these standard antiviruses, but I can't remember it's name,
all I can remember now is that it takes several hours to scan, but no virus has chance against this one...
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 12:20 AM

You might be thinking of NOD32.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 04:16 AM

Hey no worries, I found out how to reprogram buttons and... well... 7. Thanks for the help guys, appreciated.

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