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Laptop Keyboard Characters Virus
Name: kreedskulls Date: December 7, 2004 at 13:57:21 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD XP 2500+ 256 Megs of
Comment:
Hello, my friends laptop replaces characters with numbers for some reason, but only in his profile on XP, it works fine in any other proflie, It wasn't the Numlock Key, He has Checked for viruses, and it happened right after we got out of Net Meeting. Can anyone help
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: December 8, 2004 at 03:29:38 Pacific
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JC, first thing that comes to mind is a virus. Seems like that would be machine wide in effect, but who knows? If it were me, I'd first disable restore, then scan/clean, then re-enable restore (be aware that doing this will erase all your restore points so you might wanna create a new CLEAN one). HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: fintan Date: December 15, 2004 at 05:30:34 Pacific
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I go this problem too.... I tried the numlock key and initialindicators key in the registry to no avail.
I've got MaAfee at it's latest version! Any luck with this?
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pop-up help please!
