Recent content by Quirk

Problem identified! It was the damn MS USB wireless receiver. First I typed one letter to launch the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's. Then I just unplugged the USB receiver and the x's stopped instantly. Plugged my MS USB corded keyboard into the same USB slot on the computer and voila! Normal...

Interesting that you mention that. Early on I did think that maybe it was my keyboard that had gone haywire, so yes I went and got another and it didn't fix the problem. Exact same problem remained. However, I was just at my other (problem) computer to read any incoming e-mails. Once the...

Thanks Harvey. I tried CCleaner. It cleaned out a lot of old file extensions from deleted programs and such, but identified nothing malicious. More importantly, the problem remained after running all the cleaner utilities. I was optimistic that this would be the ticket, but alas... Good...

Thanks pylonman. I had the same question about what MSE found and deleted. The screen simply said that one item was found and deleted. I did not see any tabs I could click on or any other way to see what the item was. However, it was almost 3am so it's quite possible that I just overlooked...

If no one here has encountered this before, any suggestions for a forum which is more specifically oriented to security issues? Then again, this might not be a security issue.... Just can't figure this one out. Very frustrating. :(

I am posting from another computer since the one affected is very difficult to operate on. First the system etc: VISTA 64-bit, ASUS board, Firefox, AVAST antivirus, all update programs on and up to date. Everything was working fine before I left for a few hours, except that an error...