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On 01/12/12 09:10, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone has seen this before. I'm working on a > student's laptop. It had one of those rogue Antivirus Malware threats > on it, which I removed using Malware Bytes. Now somehow, the laptop's > track pad and keyboard have been disabled in XP. I initially thought > there was a physical problem; but the internal keyboard works in the > bios, and external keyboard and mouse work just fine in Windows. Has > anyone ever seen the like before? At this point, I'm pretty much stumped. > > Thanks, > > Al > Unfortunately, you have not removed it. I had that about two months ago on a friends machine, and used stuff to remove it, and it came back, all on its own. Manual digging revealed that it hid a copy of itself in dllcache, such that it was able to defend against things like MWB. Yes, I have seen the keyboard go, but not mouse. Kind neat, killing all normal input. Some of this stuff is just brilliant programming. Me, I'd scrub the machine. I do not think it is possible to get some of this stuff off machines. Or, it *is* but at an incredible cost in terms of time. My department chair had a virus which emailed copies of itself, a few years ago. He managed to get the virus part off, but the little smtp engine was still there, flopping around like a fish out of water, creating these tiny temp files for each smtp session. It didn't send anything, but created thousands of files. I decided to fight this thing myself, and kept track of my time. It took 39 hours to do that. I won, but I think it was something of a Pyrrhic victory. Sorry to be depressing, but I've come to the conclusion that there are several viri which you just can't reasonably get rid of... --STeve Andre'