Key Stroke Processing

[Paul S]

Word 2003, started yesterday, when typing in a standard blank document page,
the hard drive runs contiuously as if it is processing every single key
stroke. If I stop typing, the hard drive stops, but as soon as I press any
key on the keyboard, the hard drive starts processing every stroke.

What is the cause of this? Norton Anti-virus has found no virus's and the
spyware applications I've got have found nothing also.

No other Office 2003 applications are affected. Hard drive is only 27%
full.

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:49:01 -0800, Paul S <Paul

Word 2003, started yesterday, when typing in a standard blank document page,
the hard drive runs contiuously as if it is processing every single key
stroke. If I stop typing, the hard drive stops, but as soon as I press any
key on the keyboard, the hard drive starts processing every stroke.

What is the cause of this? Norton Anti-virus has found no virus's and the
spyware applications I've got have found nothing also.

No other Office 2003 applications are affected. Hard drive is only 27%
full.

That behavior sounds like a keylogger may be active on your system.
The test results I've seen for most anti-spyware programs aren't
encouraging, so it's quite possible you do have some nasty that isn't
showing up in the scans.

Get a copy of Hijack This, take a snapshot, and post the log as
described at http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/. (You can download the
program there, too.) The volunteers on the HJT forum will tell you
what the results mean.