Not used one of my laptops for 7 months and switched it on yesterday . Seemed OK , plugged in a network cable to get the MS updates and nothing . Packets going out but nothing coming in .Left it for a while and it started to behave very odly .
Desktop icons flashing from one to the other , couldn't open a program at first and when I did , every box as if Iwas going to open a file or save a file filled in with the letter 'k'. Ran the anti-virus and it found the Vundo trojan . All deleted but it was still acting the same .Booting into the BIOS left every box on the screen flashing from one section to the other , so I could have never altered anything , if I'd needed to change the boot sequence for instance .If I open Notepad , the box starts to type the letter 'k ' over and over again.
So, changed the memory , updated the BIOS from the HP site , put another hard drive in and re-installed Windows and when you get to the name section , just before the Windows Key section , it fills up with the letter 'k' . I click next and attempt to fill in the key and I get ..............you guessed it .........the letter 'k' .Every box fills up with 'k's
I have NEVER experienced anything like this in the 15 years I've been associated with Pc' and laptops and I'm at a loss what has caused this .
Anyway the laptop is useless now , so, I'll put it on the bay for spares .
If it's a resident virus causing this , if thats the problem , where the heck is it ? Has it embeded itself into a chip somewhere or could this be a motherboard problem ?
Desktop icons flashing from one to the other , couldn't open a program at first and when I did , every box as if Iwas going to open a file or save a file filled in with the letter 'k'. Ran the anti-virus and it found the Vundo trojan . All deleted but it was still acting the same .Booting into the BIOS left every box on the screen flashing from one section to the other , so I could have never altered anything , if I'd needed to change the boot sequence for instance .If I open Notepad , the box starts to type the letter 'k ' over and over again.
So, changed the memory , updated the BIOS from the HP site , put another hard drive in and re-installed Windows and when you get to the name section , just before the Windows Key section , it fills up with the letter 'k' . I click next and attempt to fill in the key and I get ..............you guessed it .........the letter 'k' .Every box fills up with 'k's
I have NEVER experienced anything like this in the 15 years I've been associated with Pc' and laptops and I'm at a loss what has caused this .
Anyway the laptop is useless now , so, I'll put it on the bay for spares .
If it's a resident virus causing this , if thats the problem , where the heck is it ? Has it embeded itself into a chip somewhere or could this be a motherboard problem ?
