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Any Know Virus That Selectively Chnages Keyboard Mapping ?[solved]

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ThomasAn
ThomasAn
edited June 2008 in Malware talk

Everything works fine on my PC unless I open certain programs (like Illustrator) and after I perform a certain operation the keyboard mapping changes like in the image. When I minimize the app the keyboard goes to normal. There are a couple of other apps the give me this behavior


keyboardweirdchangehn5.gif


Does this sound like a virus ? ... or something else ?


(Nothing comes up in a scan though).

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  • rootkit
    rootkit ✭✭✭
    edited June 2008
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    Post here a Hiajackthis log !


    Instructions: http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=5668

  • ThomasAn
    ThomasAn
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    Post here a Hiajackthis log !


    Instructions: http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=5668


    Here is the log file:


    /applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=2237" data-fileid="2237" rel="">hijackthis.log

  • ThomasAn
    ThomasAn
    edited June 2008
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    Ok ... it is NOT a virus. I have been able to isolate what causes it. It seems that the ALT+Shift combination triggers it and any application that uses such combination becomes affected.


    I just don't know yet which Windows option is the culprit ... maybe something in accessibility options ... I don't know yet.


    Ok ... it is NOT a virus. I have been able to isolate what causes it. It seems that the ALT+Shift combination triggers it and any application that uses such combination becomes affected.


    I just don't know yet which Windows option is the culprit ... maybe something in accessibility options ... I don't know yet.


    SOLVED.


    Left ALT+SHIFT = Switch input languages or keyboard layouts (available and configurable


    when the user installed multiple keyboard layouts through Regional and Language Options


    in Control Panel).


    It seems there were a few language layouts setup in my system that I wasn't aware


    of. So each time the ALT+leftSHIFT combination was being pressed Windows was cycling


    between four input languages. After deleting the extra ones everything is back to


    normal.

  • rootkit
    rootkit ✭✭✭
    edited June 2008
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    Ok.


    Solved !


    Topic closed !


    If you want this to be opened, send me a PM !

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