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Troubling nailing elusive virus
Hi,
I'm fairly confident that my Windows 7 machine has been compromised.
Here are some funny things my computer has been doing:
- My keyboard has been acting strange. Some keys don't work.
- If I sit here and do not touch anything, the start menu will pop up as if I had pressed the Windows key on my keyboard.
- My WoW account and email account were hacked
- I left my computer running to download a large game patch today and, when I came home from work, found that the Windows virtual keyboard had been enabled.
- If I set my Windows power settings to shut the computer off after a certain amount of time of no activity, it will not shut off. Same for the monitor setting.
It's a bit puzzling as I'm a fairly savvy user and I don't use this machine for anything but gaming. I have probably logged into Facebook and Hotmail a few times, but other than that I hardly do any browsing. My primary computer is my laptop.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything! Here are the steps I have taken:
- Ran Microsoft Security Essentials
- Ran Lavasoft Ad-Aware (found cookies, nothing else)
- Ran bidefender rescue (bootable anti-virus that boots from CD)
None of these have found anything. I also have a laptop, which runs OS X, but I do not feel this has been compromised. However, I'm currently running some AV software to be sure.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Last edited by andywhoa; 13 Oct 2010 at 18:09. Reason: Apparently I can't edit the subject, woops