What is my pc infected with???

[thefourthwall]

My home pc began exhibiting _very_ strange behavior yesterday: at the login prompt, the username has to be entered backwards -- the admin username, "wsroot" has to now be entered as "toorsw" and the same for the password.

And it's _only_ happening in the login fields: after typing in a character, the cursor is immediately moved the the _left_ of the character I just entered.

Once in Windows (running W2k Pro), the highlight moves up in any vertical list: i.e., I press Start and it's like the keyboard's up arrow is being held down. Same thing in any explorer window.

HiJackThis shows nothing unusual; process explorer shows only one out-of-the-ordinary process, called "system," with no image path associated with it. NAV finds nothing, same for Spybot.

Help!

-thefourthwall

 

[Xemus]

Sounds kinda like an old trojan that allows remote control. Why not post a Hijack This log and let us look at it?

http://www.closedsocket.com

 

[bygeek]

Perhaps a bad keyboard?

 

[diogenes10]

...only one out-of-the-ordinary process, called "system,..."

You could try on line virus scans first, Smah has a faq that shows several.

If that doesn't fix it, I'd second Xemus' suggestion-google on system gets some problem files with that name.


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