Virus?? roland5575 11/3/2008 9:33:02 PM Hi Everybody, I have noticed on my win XP PC, that i cant type in any type of dialogue box at all, what happens, is a continuous line of forward slash type lines run across the box preventing me from entering data. This also applies to IE browser, as soon as i try to type anything in i am forbidden. i have ran AVG8,Spybot,Adaware,Advanced windows care, they all say my machine is clean. i have tried a system restore to a previous setting all to no avail. Can anybody please help? Thank You

Re: Virus?? "TaurArian" <taurarian[ at ]gmail.com> 11/3/2008 10:33:53 PM Perhaps post to the Security - Viruses Newsgroup OE client - news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus or Web client - http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.security.virus&cat=en_us_84942e99-3241-4584-87eb-b55d8ffb3c8c&lang=en&cr=us Provide as much details as possible, such as operating system (including sp level), internet explorer version etc. -- TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 - Update Services http://taurarian.mvps.org ====================================== How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Disclaimer: The information has been posted "as is" with no warranties or guarantees and doesn't give any rights. Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco "roland5575" <roland5575[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FD0272A5-FB42-4525-BBB2-6C841A63B621[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi Everybody, > > I have noticed on my win XP PC, that i cant type in any type of dialogue > box > at all, what happens, is a continuous line of forward slash type lines run > across the box preventing me from entering data. This also applies to IE > browser, as soon as i try to type anything in i am forbidden. i have ran > AVG8,Spybot,Adaware,Advanced windows care, they all say my machine is > clean. > i have tried a system restore to a previous setting all to no avail. Can > anybody please help? > > Thank You

Re: Virus?? roland5575 11/3/2008 10:48:02 PM "TaurArian" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Perhaps post to the Security - Viruses Newsgroup > > OE client - > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus > or > Web client - > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.security.virus&cat=en_us_84942e99-3241-4584-87eb-b55d8ffb3c8c&lang=en&cr=us > > Provide as much details as possible, such as operating system (including sp > level), internet explorer version etc. > -- > > TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 - Update Services > http://taurarian.mvps.org > ====================================== > How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > Disclaimer: The information has been posted "as is" with no warranties or > guarantees and doesn't give any rights. > Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco > > > "roland5575" <roland5575[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:FD0272A5-FB42-4525-BBB2-6C841A63B621[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I have noticed on my win XP PC, that i cant type in any type of dialogue > > box > > at all, what happens, is a continuous line of forward slash type lines run > > across the box preventing me from entering data. This also applies to IE > > browser, as soon as i try to type anything in i am forbidden. i have ran > > AVG8,Spybot,Adaware,Advanced windows care, they all say my machine is > > clean. > > i have tried a system restore to a previous setting all to no avail. Can > > anybody please help? > > > > Thank You > > > Ok will do, thank you.

Re: Virus?? "Don Phillipson" <e925[ at ]SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> 11/3/2008 11:11:38 PM "roland5575" <roland5575[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FD0272A5-FB42-4525-BBB2-6C841A63B621[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have noticed on my win XP PC, that i cant type in any type of dialogue box > at all, what happens, is a continuous line of forward slash type lines run > across the box preventing me from entering data. This also applies to IE > browser, as soon as i try to type anything in i am forbidden. It was not unambiguously clear whether this applies to all keyboard functions. (You could have done by mouse alone all the other functions you listed.) Because keyboards are nowadays so cheap, you should check whether yours has malfunctioned (by simply borrowing and plugging in another KB.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Re: Virus?? What's in a Name? <maxwachtel[ at ]gmail.com> 11/4/2008 3:41:33 PM On 11/3/2008 4:33 PM, roland5575 after much thought,came up with this jewel: [Quoted Text] > Hi Everybody, > > I have noticed on my win XP PC, that i cant type in any type of dialogue box > at all, what happens, is a continuous line of forward slash type lines run > across the box preventing me from entering data. This also applies to IE > browser, as soon as i try to type anything in i am forbidden. i have ran > AVG8,Spybot,Adaware,Advanced windows care, they all say my machine is clean. > i have tried a system restore to a previous setting all to no avail. Can > anybody please help? > > Thank You Could be simple keyboard malfunction. Do you have a different keyboard that you can plug in? max -- Virus Removal http://max.shplink.com/removal.html Keep Clean http://max.shplink.com/keepingclean.html Change nomail.afraid.org to gmail.com to reply by email. nomail.afraid.org is for use in USENET-feel free to use it yourself.