[RogerMare]

Help,

I have noticed a few symptoms on my Dell Laptop. The machine has been getting progressively slower over the past week despite having 2GB memory and essentially only being used for browsing. There is plenty of disk space too.
Last night a strange effect started to happen in tha if I pressed 'e' or 'w' I would get a random combination of 'we' appearing, the same effect was noticed on s & d and c & x and 2 & 8.
My first thought was some kind of virus, but my scanner AVG is up to date and runs clean but notes 'changed' for MBR. I tried McAfee on line and it ran clean.
I used Lavasoft's spyware product which found 52 objects but crashed while checking C: system information.
I tried Microsoft's rooktkit scanner and again it has ground to a halt.

Because the keys are in a line I could believe a hardware fault, but I am also concerned to re-boot in case it is a boot sector virus.

Any help from your experience gratefully received.
Thanks
Graeme

[blues_harp28]

Hi and welcome to TSG.
Could be a faulty keyboard.
Reboot to safe mode and run you Anti-virus and Spyware scan.
Avg MBR change is Ok unless it says infected.

[RogerMare]

Thanks
Safe mode - ran clean.
Tried a USB keyboard and problem disappeared

Thanks for the help