Re: serious funkyness going on with my machine!!!!

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Yeah it was, AFTER I found out what it was. :-P

"johnfli" wrote:

> Glad you found out what teh problem was.
> But you have to admit, that is kinda funny.
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> "chrisf" <chrisf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A5A187F0-EEA2-412D-864B-1DDB601780FE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > GOOD NEWS!! not a virus and was initiated by the TAB key....I have one of
> > those stupid "programable" keyboards, that if you hit the "program macro"
> key
> > it logs everything you type and you can assign that to a key...with all
> the
> > stuff on my keyboard I didn't notice the ProgramMacro light was on. So
> > hitting the tab did exactly what it was told to do... sheesh
> >
> > :-(
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> > "chrisF" wrote:
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> > > I started noticing that when I tried to login in to ebay, or
> auctionsniper or
> > > PCanwhere, as soon as I typed in my username and tab out of the entry
> field
> > > my computer would go nuts and start typing stuff automatically. The
> stuff
> > > that it was typing was stuff that I entered in my MSmoney, my outlook
> express
> > > and my IE search field.
> > >
> > > It even does it in Safe Mode, interestingly it does it on the very first
> > > LOGIN screen.
> > >
> > > If I leave the default username (the correct one) and enter my normal
> > > password it boots fine, until I enter my other username in an entry
> field
> > > somewhere. If I choose one of my other usernames or some bogus name like
> > > Frank it start typing automatically.
> > >
> > > I even tried opening a JPG, and doing a saveas with the filename being
> one
> > > of the other usernames .jpg it goes bonkers again.
> > >
> > > Anybody else come across this? it seems to be entry fields and it seems
> to
> > > act on the tabbing out of the field.
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