[ale] Weird keyboard behavior

[Matt Hessel]

Do you have java enabled in your browser?  Just a basic question as there
have been some significant vulnerabilities lately that tend to be cross
platform.
On Sep 10, 2012 11:22 AM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Today my keyboard started doing weird things. When I go to log-in to
> sites on Firefox using my password manager (KeePassX) the hot-key for
> entering user-id & password is ctrl + v, when I did that it launched a
> spreadsheet that I have a desktop icon for. When I tried again it just
> kept on maximizing that spreadsheet window. I closed all apps and did
> the Bill Gates maneuver, with no change. I then removed KeePassX and
> re-installed it. Also I had deleted the icon for that particular
> spreadsheet.
>
> The behavior seemed to improve except that when I select the log-in
> that I want to use in KeePassX I have to actually hit the enter key
> before ctrl + v, otherwise my password gets bookmarked in Firefox. Now
> all of a sudden when I use ctrl + v in KeePassX it will change tags on
> email messages, I've archived several messages, starred many messages
> and deleted a few messages, in Thunderbird.
>
> The main problem seemed to have started yesterday. I had bought a
> cubieboard on Saturday night. They are being sold through Ali Express
> part of Alibaba. I had to create an account with them and was then
> able to place the order. Last night I went to log-in to my Ali-Express
> account and it would just sit their spinning and spinning and
> spinning, never going past the log-in screen. I went through the
> motion of changing my password through the forgot my password, which
> it accepted, but no change.
>
> This morning I booted and the keyboard issue really started up as I
> mentioned at the beginning. It had one time did some weird stuff to
> Thunderbird when I used KeePassX yesterday, but just the one time, so
> I thought it was just a fat finger thing on my part.
>
> Has anybody had any dealings with Ali Express?
>
> Besides redoing my install from scratch, any ideas of what I should be
> looking at?
>
> I'm planning on trying other users to see if I get similar results later.
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