Pressing the CTRL key opens Internet Explorer.

[deeplays]

Hello to you all.
Today my keyboard started to act very weirdly. Pressing the Left CTRL key apparently opens Internet Explorer now, and i can't use that key for ANYTHING. On Firefox, that same key opens the homepage, which isn't a common behaviour at all. Some research and nothing, it's not a setting, it's not a configured hotkey, just pure cat-sitting-on-your-keyboard situation, and apparently now that key only wants to do that. I checked out the iexplorer shoutcut, it's not set to have shortcuts at all. Firefox hasn't the setting to do that aswell 🙁

Cheers, Dee.

 

[Colif]

oh no, the infamous "cat presses key combo no human can and now kb does odd things" error... these can be hard to figure out.

You could look in system restore and see when last restore point is to roll system back to a time before cat sat on it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/system-restore-from-windows-8-recovery-environment/

there are some really strange key combos that can reek havoc on PC. Some let you disable all keys except numbers, good thing you didn't get that.

 

[The Paladin]

it could be the "cat-butt-virus" as reported by McCafee in 1987...it affected 12,786 computers in a year

ref: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
try disconnect keyboard, and use this program to remove the USb information about it, and then shut down PC, plug keyboard in and reboot machine letting windows re discover the keyboard.

 

[deeplays]

oh no, the infamous "cat presses key combo no human can and now kb does odd things" error... these can be hard to figure out.

You could look in system restore and see when last restore point is to roll system back to a time before cat sat on it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/system-restore-from-windows-8-recovery-environment/

there are some really strange key combos that can reek havoc on PC. Some let you disable all keys except numbers, good thing you didn't get that.

I haven't got a restore point apparently. And it ain't a virus either. I have no idea what that punk of a furball did..

 

[Colif]

look at 2nd paragraph in Paladin's post. The cat butt virus thing is just a joke... every few months we have a Case of cats walking on keyboards and reeking havoc.

 

[kerberos_20]

launch some keyboard tester to see if keys are working as intented
some keys have combined circuits to save cost
u may have something on your contacts so it may register several pressed keys even if u press just one