WIndows Vista Login Credential Problem - Possible Virus Activity

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From last couple of days I have been facing trouble while login into my laptop. In the screen where I need to enter password, at the time of entering password, if I am typing a character 's', the character is followed by a lot 'a' character. Hence the password textbox is filled by a lot unwanted character. Thank god I could log in as I have on screen keyboard which is working fine.

Keyboard character is working fine as onced logged in, on pressing 's' it behaves perfectly. ( no 'a' character follows 's') :)

I suspect this is a virus activity. I checked msconfig and registry (current user and software/run) but have not found any suspected entry.

Any body can give me some clue how can I identify whats wrong happening ? So basically I am looking for if someone can help me identifying what are services/programms are loaded at start up boot time and which file/services/program is responsible for user's credential checking.

Thanks in advance,

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Arindam D Tewary

Posted 23-Mar-10 0:46am

Arindam Tewary

Updated 23-Mar-10 0:49am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2010-03-24T04:46:00

You're probably never going to find anything looking through stuff by hand. Even if you found something, you're probably only looking at a small part of the "bugger" and will miss other stuff that will "reinstall" the virus.

I highly suggest trying a dedicated virus scanner and an adware/malware scanner instead.