Failing Keyboard

External Since: May 09, 2004 Posts: 2

I have a question about a failing keyboard on a Win 98 2nd Edition PC that
was badly infected with a virus (don't recall the name of it). There were
100's of files infected. Can some virus cause just some of the keys on such
a keyboard to stop functioning? Most of the otehr keys functioned OK.

External Since: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 731

carlwward wrote:
> I have a question about a failing keyboard on a Win 98 2nd Edition PC that
> was badly infected with a virus (don't recall the name of it). There were
> 100's of files infected. Can some virus cause just some of the keys on
> such a keyboard to stop functioning? Most of the otehr keys functioned
> OK.

Not on a hardware basis.

It could easily affect the software running on the machine and screw with
it's operation, but if you plugged the keyboard into a working system, it
would still function.

Unless of course the virus was something like the common cold, transferred
from a friend to a can of coke which was subsequently spilt on the keyboard
:-p

Ben
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