A virus that makes Dink keep on walking
I have a virus that I had a few years back. It's a fairly simple one, perhaps related to a keylogger. My cursor, in notepad, would start moving forward on its own. In Dink games, using the right-hand movement key would move him - and he'd just keep on moving for another 30 seconds or so, hell or high water. It's a real bummer in Dink games, because the character moves to the right, keeps going, no matter what, then pushes against whatever he can't walk through - no matter what's chewing on his ass. Takes all the fun out of it, know what I mean?
When I had it before, I think an antivirus program got rid of it. I don't know how I got it back - perhaps from a file saved long ago on a CD. But it's back, and now the anti-malware programs can't seem to nail it. I guess the older ones are no longer of much interest.
Can someone tell me where I might look? I've uninstalled and reinstalled Dink, the keyboard itself, etc. No good. The keyboard.inf file had extra space at the top - so I got rid of that - no help. (I have W98SE) I've supplanted every system file that relates to the keyboard (that I can find) using System File Checker. Still got the problem. I spiffed up the registry with Ontrack. Still there. Reinstalled Windows (overlay, not after format) - no good.
Somewhere, there is a way to dictate to a PC what SHALL happen when you use a keyboard key, or hold one down to repeat it. I don't know where that is, but I DO know it isn't to be found in Control Panel. It's strange, too, because my expert just gave me a new keyboard - another client got a new PC but didn't want the keyboard, and I wanted a new one (English, not Spanish) that was well made, instead of China-made ones that fall apart after a few months. So I now have a H/P. It's great. At first the del key just under the keypad worked. Now it doesn't. Neither does the ins key next to it. I don't know how they both became nonfunctional, but it may be connected to this virus. Or maybe the solution to the virus can guide me to fixing this problem, too. I don't have a copy of the install files for the keyboard - it's 104 keys instead of 102 and is installed as a generic 101-102-key thing. But it worked at first! There are little side buttons, and they never worked, but I didn't care.
Can someone help?
When I had it before, I think an antivirus program got rid of it. I don't know how I got it back - perhaps from a file saved long ago on a CD. But it's back, and now the anti-malware programs can't seem to nail it. I guess the older ones are no longer of much interest.
Can someone tell me where I might look? I've uninstalled and reinstalled Dink, the keyboard itself, etc. No good. The keyboard.inf file had extra space at the top - so I got rid of that - no help. (I have W98SE) I've supplanted every system file that relates to the keyboard (that I can find) using System File Checker. Still got the problem. I spiffed up the registry with Ontrack. Still there. Reinstalled Windows (overlay, not after format) - no good.
Somewhere, there is a way to dictate to a PC what SHALL happen when you use a keyboard key, or hold one down to repeat it. I don't know where that is, but I DO know it isn't to be found in Control Panel. It's strange, too, because my expert just gave me a new keyboard - another client got a new PC but didn't want the keyboard, and I wanted a new one (English, not Spanish) that was well made, instead of China-made ones that fall apart after a few months. So I now have a H/P. It's great. At first the del key just under the keypad worked. Now it doesn't. Neither does the ins key next to it. I don't know how they both became nonfunctional, but it may be connected to this virus. Or maybe the solution to the virus can guide me to fixing this problem, too. I don't have a copy of the install files for the keyboard - it's 104 keys instead of 102 and is installed as a generic 101-102-key thing. But it worked at first! There are little side buttons, and they never worked, but I didn't care.
Can someone help?
