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Password no longer recognized, sound gone, keyboard weirdness; Virus?
Since last night, my desktop Win 7 machine has lost sound -- strangely it first lost sound on my girlfriend's profile, then only later it went on my administrator's profile too. Now when I want to log in Windows won't recognize my password (interestingly, a little message comes up giving my reminder phrase for it, so there's no doubt about what the right password is or was). What happens too is that when I want to type in the password, the keystrokes multiply to infinity and fill the box with a single letter.
Have I got a Christmas present in the form of a virus or other infection ? I ran Spyhunter 5 and Microsoft Security Essentials when the troubles started with the loss of sound. Both of these are up to date. Spyhunter found one spyware cookie, MSE nothing at all.
I'm now writing this on my old laptop (also Win 7), though I can get into the problem desktop machine using my girlfriend's profile because, thankfully, that requires no password...
Grateful any helpful Yuletide suggestions.
Leachim