The Dink Network

I'm an American, disabled and retired early, living in Mexico. I'm not the only Dinker here, though, because I've lived with an indigenous Huichol family as my houseguests for the past eight years, and the two boys love Dink! Even though they can't read any of the text. Their baby sister will probably develop her own Dink fanatacism - given time. They love Dink, even if all they can do is roam around splatting monsters. I have to keep the more lewd stuff out of their reach, though.

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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?