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| Guest | Re: Weird keyboard problems / Possible keylogger? I see this alot with XP when the user has inadvertently activated "Filterkeys". Do this: Start, Control Panel, Ease of Access, Make the Keyboard Easier to Use. See if "FilterKeys" is checked. Ferd "Fred" <fbnewtz@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:9b047f4d-f7b6-46ef-9443-0695f61d8692@xxxxxx Quote: > One of my clients has a one year old pc that is running Windows Vista > SP1 on there. Recently she started complaining that her keyboard was > acting a little weird. It is intermittent but she will be typing and > letters will just not appear on the screen. Some delayed reaction as > well, but not that delayed. > > The first thing I thought is that the keyboard was having some > physical issues. So not only did we try another keyboard that is > known to work we tried her keyboard on another computer. Needless to > say the other keyboard has the same problem on her computer and her > keyboard works just fine on a different computer. So I know it is not > related specifically to the keyboard. It is a USB keyboard and we > have tried different ports etc. > > My concern is that the problem is a keystroke logger. I would be > really surprised if one was on there though. She doesn't really do > anything but read email on the computer. Do a little shopping > online. Her computer came up clean on spyware scans with at least > malwarebytes anti-malware. I didn't personally, but she does have the > latest ad-aware loaded and she claims that she has scanned with that > already. I haven't tried spybot yet either. > > It is a hard problem to search for really and I think I have seen a > few issues relating to Vista updates. But nothing concrete that I > could find yet. I don't know what if any good keystroke logger > scanners are out there either. They all seem to be a joke. Any help > with this issue will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Fred |
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