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From: ulall@pub.uwrl.usu.edu
Subject: virus or weird behavior - hardware or software
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.201630.10118@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Summary: keys repeat without holding down
Keywords: repeating key, virus
Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
Reply-To: ulall@pub.uwrl.usu.edu
Organization: utah state university
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 20:16:30 GMT

I'm having a weird problem with my mac IIx

various keys - in particular o and sometimes v, arbitrarily start repeating
when pressed once
other keys like shift, option and cloverleaf appear to be stuck periodically.

Replacing the keyboard does not help
switching the adb port apparently cleared it up for a few days, but the problem
is now back.

Periodically, the problem disappears.

I have tried rebuilding the system and replacing the finder twice.
Once the problem went away, the second time it did not.

Disinfectant 2.4 and virus detective 4.0.3 report no problems
This problem appeared since installing System 6.0.7 and 32-bit-quickdraw,
though not immediately after

Incidentally, I had deleted Geneva 10,14 from the system, now on re-installing
them, they show up under font/da mover but hypercard 2.0 complains that I don't
have them installed and excel and other program displays also suggest that they
are not there

I have the following inits

Gatekeeper & Gatekeeper Aid
Quickeys 1.1
Truetype
Deskwriter 2.1
Maxapplezoom2.1
32 bit quickdraw
moire



your help will be appreciated