So -- I'm not even sure this is a malware related issue, but I suppose it could be. Every once in awhile when I am typing, either in Word or on the web, without any reason at all, letters will start typing in all caps. And I'm not hitting the caps lock button.
When the system is in this state, the shift button no longer capitalizes or lowercases letters. Shift just doesn't work. The only way I know of to get a lowercase letter is by pressing CAPS LOCK. But when caps lock is pressed, letters will all be lowercase. When I press caps lock again, it is in all uppercase. This is annoying because when it is in this state, I can't make any sentences with both capital and lowercase letters.
I figured out that if I open a command prompt, and press the shift button and various letters in there, it will take me out of this state.
I just have no idea what is causing this. Nothing comes up on a virus scan -- FYI I am running Webroot virus scanner and Windows XP.
A little bit more background... Not sure this is in any way relevant to my problem here, but here it is. Earlier, my Chrome browser had an annoying thing called "Binkiland" on there for a long time. So I recently went through a bunch of websites, one told me to go through my the windows registry to delete all references to binkyland, which I did. Binkyland is no more.
The other recent change was I uninstalled Norton (subscription ran out) and installed Webroot. Hard to believe that installing Webroot would have caused this issue. Here's what the sysinfo utility says:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz, x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2046 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 49999 MB, Free - 7413 MB; D: Total - 665395 MB, Free - 53408 MB; F: Total - 1430796 MB, Free - 58493 MB; H: Total - 953866 MB, Free - 219697 MB;
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC., P5N32-E SLI
Antivirus: Webroot SecureAnywhere, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled
When the system is in this state, the shift button no longer capitalizes or lowercases letters. Shift just doesn't work. The only way I know of to get a lowercase letter is by pressing CAPS LOCK. But when caps lock is pressed, letters will all be lowercase. When I press caps lock again, it is in all uppercase. This is annoying because when it is in this state, I can't make any sentences with both capital and lowercase letters.
I figured out that if I open a command prompt, and press the shift button and various letters in there, it will take me out of this state.
I just have no idea what is causing this. Nothing comes up on a virus scan -- FYI I am running Webroot virus scanner and Windows XP.
A little bit more background... Not sure this is in any way relevant to my problem here, but here it is. Earlier, my Chrome browser had an annoying thing called "Binkiland" on there for a long time. So I recently went through a bunch of websites, one told me to go through my the windows registry to delete all references to binkyland, which I did. Binkyland is no more.
The other recent change was I uninstalled Norton (subscription ran out) and installed Webroot. Hard to believe that installing Webroot would have caused this issue. Here's what the sysinfo utility says:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz, x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2046 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 49999 MB, Free - 7413 MB; D: Total - 665395 MB, Free - 53408 MB; F: Total - 1430796 MB, Free - 58493 MB; H: Total - 953866 MB, Free - 219697 MB;
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC., P5N32-E SLI
Antivirus: Webroot SecureAnywhere, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled
