Keyboard and Mouse woes

[Trinity]

I'm going to quote this from Randomness, as I'm lazy. Well, the situation is on my dad's windows xp computer, the mouse and keyboard have been acting up. The full details:

Urgh, where to start. Well recently, my keyboard has been acting up. Sometimes the shift key breaks and when I press it, a whole bunch of gibberish appears. And it's gotten worse, now whenever that happens, I can't even really press capslock, or else it'll try to print something and a whole bunch of crap (aka error messages, prompts, and mozilla firefox help) pops up. It's still trying to cancel one of the print jobs from more than an hour ago. Sometimes a new firefox window pops up too. Sometimes it even goes into standby mode. Sometimes I can still press capslock, but shift still spurts out gibberish.

And my mouse, it was fine before, but now when I don't move it, it disappears for a while. It's fine now, but a few minutes ago it wasn't.

Strange thing is, this certainly doesn't happen on my dad's account on this computer.

I scanned with Ad Aware SE, but it came up with nothing. I'm currently scanning again with that and eTrust. Any help'd be appreciated.

Edit - Crap, now the f5 key's doing it too.

Edit 2 - It appears I have a trojan according to eTrust, but can't get rid of it because my computer account doesn't have admin privledges. My dad's account does, but each account will only scan itself I think. <_<

The thing is, I'm not so sure it's the trojan, as this has been happening for a while, and I'm pretty I've done a couple of eTrust scans(not completely sure though)... So, any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Trinity on Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Dragonfire]

Did you or someone else by any chance spill any kind of liquid on the keyboard? Because it would make gibberish appear. I accidentally did it once on my dad's comp, and x's and z's would appear.

The keyboard and/or mouse are probably too worn out and it's time to get a new one.

[kanashimi]

Lol thats dodgy o.O

My advise, get a new keyboard and mouse (obviously)

Anyway, my speakers are real dodgy... But cant be stuffed to explain

Anyway, my mouse also stuffs up >.<

Actually, maybe get a new computer...

[wishy]

If you spilled something in the keyboard, that would explain the gibberish. I did this once and had to disassemble my keyboard and clean it. There's a little plastic looking thing inside. I cleaned that because it was covered in coke, lol. If that doesn't work, i'd just get a new keyboard. They're pretty affordable, i have a nice one now that only cost me about 30 dollars.

[ArwenEarendil]

I can give you something that can change your admin privileges to admin. (You can always change it back after you get rid of the trojan.) It's a simple command you enter in C Prompt. It can be considered 'hacking', so I'm not sure if it's allowed.

You can PM me, and i'll try to dig it up.

If any mods have a problem with this, feel free to delete this post.

[Trinity]

Problem solved. It was the trojan, but I must've had it for a while as that was going on for a while.