Virus has attacked keyboard - moved by Jintan

morabors · #1 June 25th, 2012, 03:03 AM

My wife's PC was working fine until recently when she said she could not type anything. I checked and in fact you can start to type and then all of a sudden only 3's or 8's will start to type continuously. I ran Avast and Malwarebytes but nothing came back. I decided to run these in safe mode but when I went to start in safe mode the option is no longer there, only to srart in W7 (or hit F8 for more options) but the keyboard does not work so I cannot access F8. I tried to type msconfig in the command bar but the PC started opening a bunch of things. Ultimately I was able to get into system and security and was able to start in safe mode. Ran Avast and nothing came back. Tried to run Malware but was told it was corrupted (mind you I ran it an hour earlier when not in safe mode). I downloaded Malware to a thumb drive from a clean PC and am running it now but expect nothing to come back. Obviously I swapped the keyboard and that is not the issue. Any suggestions?
Thanks

morabors · #2 June 26th, 2012, 12:26 AM

Update
MB came back with nothing. I did a system restore but did not resolve the issue. Started thinking HW so I was running a Seagate disk utility, system crashed, got it back up and no difference to the problem. NEW SYMPTOM tried to log off (1) user (mom) and system kept opening me to a different user (allison) automatically (4 users on the PC).

**Jintan** · #3 June 26th, 2012, 01:46 AM

Hello morabors,

If it's a laptop, the keyboard needs replacing.

morabors · #4 June 26th, 2012, 04:40 AM

Not a laptop thanks, PC. I wound up wiping the HD and loading W7 fresk. All looked like it was going well. Ran Seagate HDD utility and somewhere along the line the system restarted and apparently wiped the new install. This is really starting to look like a bad drive to me.

**Jintan** · #5 June 27th, 2012, 01:53 AM

Let's move this over to the CTH Hardware forum.

**MaDef** · #6 June 27th, 2012, 03:14 PM

morabors, can you post your hardware specs for the pc? Use my signature for a guide, or if it's a retail pc, post the make/model.

Which version of seatools are you using? Seatools for dos, or seatools for windows?

morabors · #7 June 28th, 2012, 02:14 AM

Thanks for the responses but I found it to be the HDD (2 year old Sammy Spinpoint). I took it out, put it in my PC, wiped it and did a fresh install. Looked good until I tested it with Seatools for windows, totally crashed. Installed the back up drive to my wife's PC and all is well. Still not sure if it was a virus that did in the Sammy or just it's time cause it was a very strange way for it to die.