Vista Tutorial - Re: Weird keyboard problems / Possible keylogger?

10-09-2008

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

10-09-2008	#1 (permalink)
Ferd Burfel Guest n/a posts	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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