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ok - I think you may find its your keyboard thats doing it.

If one of the wires in your keyboard cable has fractured or the keyboard
controller has stoped working then your keyboard can send random garbage to your
PC - I have seen this happen before.

First of all open your PC case and make sure there is no dust on the keyboard
controller chip on the motherboard. Now try using a different keyboard on your
PC.

See if that works.

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:04:04 GMT, "Karel" <mb10961@tvd.be> wrote:

>Dear all of you,
>
>I got affected by a virus that's slowly invading my entire disk.
>
>Symptoms:
>
>1)when writing in Word,Notepad/Editpad,in fact in virtually every window
>you're typing in,the cursor moves on different intervals to other places
>in the text and unknown spaces also occur.This makes typing very
>difficult while the text you write starts several times on other places
>within the text.Frequently the cursor also goes to other places like for
>instance right at this moment while I'm typing I suddenly notice I'm
>typing in the subject box instead of the messagebody.
>2)"Blikkering and flikkering" of the boxes you can click on witch starts
>a few seconds after opening a program.This doesn't stop anymore and you
>can only exit the program by using several times CTRL+Alt+Del.
>3)In webpages,after a fewseconds,the page starts to move and shake(some
>or all parts of it)and it scrolls up and down at a tremendous speed
>continuously;clicking on a link becomes impossible,the slidebar goes up
>and down.The only way to quit your browser is again by using
>CTRL+Alt+Del for a few times.
>4)All kind of nittering sounds occur(whoeps now my cursor runs a way
>making empty lines and this messages is growing bigger and bigger...
>Ok,I'm back after rebooting(managed to save this message in another
>folder(took me some time though)
>5)The sreen suddenly becomes like a kind of a messed up screensaver -->
>(again back after rebooting,cursor took his own life again and runned
>for its life like crazy making these empty phrases).You'll have to
>reboot.
>5)some other weird stuff like when typing a word and than hit shift
>makes the word go a line beneath.It comes back in the right place when
>you type the next word.
>6)some other different nasty unexplainable things at reboot and in
>programs,...to hard to explain never had those things before so it's
>difficult to describe.
>
>
>How I possibly got it?
>
>1)I downloaded some days ago the file SHS17.ZIP when I was visiting the
>page 'Infinisource-The Internet's Premier Resource center' at:
>http://www.windows-help.net/index.html
>There was a link on this page
>to:http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA004958/over115K/index_e.html -->
>that's the URL where I downloaded it from.The purpose of this program is
>to increase your modemspeed(regular modemconnection,not for
>cablemodems)from (for me) 9600 baut rate to 921600 or less(115200 for my
>modem).The program checks itself for your modemcompatibility and sets
>the right baut rate if your modem is a compatible class(but this is
>first checked by the SHS17 program;if your modem is     not a can
>didate for this speed-upgrade the program will tell you so and will
>quit.No harm done...(?).Now the problem is that I've send this program
>to some of you already.I just hope you didn't run it yet.Otherwise and
>when experiencing the same symptoms I do,well all I can say is:"I'm
>realy realy sorry,I truly didn't know.InfiniSource is thaught of to be
>very reliable...
>2)Or,I got infected by an incoming Icq URL-message from someone I didn't
>know.This happened 3 times this afternoon (witch usually never
>happens).I went to take a short peep to this URL(went to the page).It's
>curious that 3 different people send me this URL within short
>intervals.They may have hacked/nuked me(really don't know what it is
>that's happening)since you can read my IP-address in my personal
>Icq-info.Most of those programs that hack or send whatever to damage
>your system is based on this IP address.Disabling it so that it wouldn't
>be viewable by unknown people with malicious intentions won't help.They
>just look it up by a spooky program that also can tell the status of the
>Icq member(he might be online while he has set himself in invisible
>mode).It gives them all the info as to your address they need.
>3)Or I got onto a webpage that contained hidden virusimplementations or
>components.
>4)The    re is     something wrong w                        ith my
>keyboard(see this exa    mple?It's doing tha    t the whole time.I have
>to                 correct so that it becomes rea    dable enough.
>It's that I had troubles with my keyboard after pressing to maney
>buttons at a time when the system frooze.After that incidence I had this
>non-stopping beeping noice(but every program worked just perfectly only
>these loud beepings).Luckily I had another 'cherry keyboard' witch
>solved the noice problem.
>5)I really wouldn't know...
>
>How to get rid of it?
>
>Well,since I had no virusscanner running in the background my
>antivirusprogram(TBAV,'Thunderbite')might already be affected also.So I
>didn't find a way to get rid of the virus(yet?);If this is all about
>some virus anyway...I'll might have to try to run Norton or McaFee
>virusutilities from the CD-rom and not yet install it...worth giving it
>a try...All other system error-finders like eg. Dr. Watson or Scandisk
>say there is no problem what so ever.I also scanned for troyan
>virusses(Cleaner19C v. 1.9.0.37)but here also the same problem...the
>program might already have been affected also.There is nothing to be
>found that's not working properly in the controlpanel -->
>systemmanager --> devices.
>So if anyone of you has any other suggestions(rather not telling me to
>go and buy better antivirussoftware;I want to find out what's really
>happening first before going to pay for it.Neither do advice me to bring
>in my PC at a dealer or any other computing store(damn! cursor is doing
>weird again writing all the time in to the CC-box or subject-box...and
>it went just fine till now(...besides the jumping of the cursor while
>writing all this and splitting phrases leaving blank spaces as in the
>example shown above).
>My advice to you:don't accept/go to URL's received by Icq from people
>that are not in your addressbook and rather do not install
>SHS17(although it works really great as to the modemspeed-for me that
>is- :faxing goes as twice as fast without any dataloss-don't know about
>surfing;I'm a cablemodem-user).Also,better leave a good antivriusprogram
>always running in the background...
>
>Question...
>
>At booting(witch I've never done so many times today as in my entire
>life)the system occasionally stops for some sec's saying(in
>DOS-language):
>C:\>Rem TShoot: C:\UNZIPPED\SHS17\SHSMOD.EXE B H
>C:\>C:\WINDOWS\SHS17\SHSMOD.EXE B H
>shsmod V1.7a(29-AUGUST-1998)
>SMC37C669 at 03f0h detected
>PORT1(03f8h) Serial Speed Mode:HIGH
>PORT2(02f8h) Serial Speed Mode:HIGH
>
>--> Someone knows a bit more about MSDOS then I do and can explain this
>in normal language?I've looked in the specified UNZIPPED folder though
>it's emty.I'll try,if I get so far to go into Windowsfolder to look a
>bit around there...but I think I won't be able to get there since the
>symptoms I described above also mostly occur when trying so.
>
>I hope you're not affected as well and for myself that someone knows
>these symptoms and can tell me what I can do the best to get out of this
>misery.
>
>BTW,I run Win98 on a AMD-K6-2/350 co-pocessor,memory:128MB,disc:Award
>Modular BIOS v4.51PG,clonenr:
>07/15/1998-VP3-586B-8669-2A5LES2AC-00
>
>P.S.:I just noticed that when I hit the left keybordbutton to make a
>majustcule(arrow-buuton that points to the top of your board) makes my
>cursor go out of this message box and let ii write in the CC- or
>Subjectbox.This does not occur when I use the one on the right side of
>the keyboard.
>
>Greetz and a nice weekend to all of you!
>Karel.
>
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