I think I have a Computer Virus

[rovingcowboy]

EDIT: Just saw your post about the wireless keyboard - ooops!

yep it was feeling lonely and unwanted cause it was left in the box and only the mouse was being used.
so it got back at them.

[nynaevelan]

yep it was feeling lonely and unwanted cause it was left in the box and only the mouse was being used.
so it got back at them.

Well if it had not stopped functioning correctly, it would have still been in use.

[rovingcowboy]

so it stopped working proper for you? where is your house located at.
as in what proximity to any airport or radio station.? I'm by a military air base and can not use
wireless items of keyboard or mouse, i some times get disconnected from the wireless card too.

even get pilot radio conversations on the computer speakers at times when they fly over the house.

so same thing might be going on with you. and it is known now for about 15 years or more that too close to
the radio towers can cause trouble with stuff like blenders and toasters and microwave ovens all shorting out
or playing music in them from the power of the tower being too great in that location. so it could also mess up your wireless items. even more so now that the TV stations are broadcasting in digital they gave all the old analog Waves to groups like cops fire department jails and hospitals and ambulances and such even some to military bases to use all of which can boost the signal to get the men / women in the field better receptions.
so how close are you to those groups, by the way the cop shop at mom's town messes with their tv set and its 3 blocks from them.

[nynaevelan]

I'm not near any airports or anything that would cause any interference as far as I know. Ironically I replaced the keyboard with another wireless keyboard because it stopped responding to keypresses for many letters. I just never got around to throwing it away because it was my intention to test it on another computer.

[gege]

I had a wireless keyboard sitting in a box under my desk for several months, I finally got tired of it being in my way so I moved it and put it away yesterday. Apparently since it is a part of a mouse/keyboard combo and I am still using the mouse and it still had batteries in it, it was able to send signals to the computer. Several hours of frustrating re-formats and re-installations and it takes an internet search to find what the problem was.

Nyn, I must confess your story yielded me a good pair of laughs!
I'm an IT guy, an I have faced lots of computer problems/malfunctions for the last 15 years or so. And really there are situations when you spend a lot of time trying to figure out some problem, you do check anything you can think of, but in the end, the cause is something ridiculous like this

Cheers.

Gege.

[nynaevelan]

Well I am glad I could help to brighten your day, it is quite funny though. The sad thing is it happened to someone else, which is a good thing for me because I was ready to throw it out of the window.