So my PCs been grounded for almost 24 hours due to what appeared to be serious virus activity that has lead to me changing all of my passwords and disconnecting from the outside world. This was the worst and most frustrating virus that I have ever come across. It started with weird cursor activity and the forward cursor just resulted in 3 spaces back. It was only on certain websites and quite random. Sometimes it was OK, sometimes it wasn't. I accidentally left my PC on over night last night, as I fell asleep earlier than usual. By the morning, it had developed into something more worrying. The cursor developed a mind of it’s own and would stop me typing user names or passwords. It would just keep backtracking over my text, resulting in gobbledegook. Then the screen would turn 90 degrees and I am left trying to navigate the touch pad to buttons that keep disappearing before I can click to them. I couldn't even Ctrl Alt Del to the task manager to see what was going on. Menus just disappear in front of my eyes and pulling the plug was the only solution.
I tried Spybot in Safe Mode and Trend-Housecall. I have done a complete Symantec and AVG system scans too.
I did some web searches on another computer, but couldn't find anything this serious UNTIL…….
I kept seeing a common title in searches, being SCREEN SHORTCUTS!
Apparently, if you press Ctrl & Alt at the same time and then left arrow, the screen shifts 90 degrees to the left – HUH…
I ripped the left arrow key and cleaned some hairs and dust from the underneath.
It’s perfect now – but I was shitting square bricks for a while there
Just thought I'd share, as you never know
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Originally Posted by Hitcher
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