Re: XP keyboard remapped by Virus

From: Ted Zieglar (teddyz_at_notmail.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:00:54 -0500

Have you tried to remove the virus with your antivirus software?

Ted Zieglar

"Marina" <brasilian@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:UF0Cd.37516$wD4.11073@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> Dear Posters
>
> I am have problems with my keyboard. It is a Fujitsu laptop and all the
> keys
> are typing a different letter. How do I restore factory defaults so the
> keys
> will type the characters they are supposed too. To write a letter, I have
> to
> open an existing .doc, find each character I need, copy it to clip board,
> then past it into the text string for the message I am trying to write
> since
> my keyboard keys have been remapped by some virus off the web. Do I reload
> the driver, or restore factory defaults, rebuild the registry? And how?
> Where do I find the procedures for each of these and where do I start?
> This
> is extremely tedious to try to write anything now.
>
> Thanks in advance, Marina
>
>
>

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