| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 136265 | 2014-02-10 07:41:00 | iMac Email typing by itself! | mark1978 (13845) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1367308 | 2014-02-10 07:41:00 | My wife was typing an email tonight when she yelled out that the computer was typing by itself. I observed that the email was being typed, lots of weird stuff, nothing recognisable but then it started to type our phone number... From 1 number being wrong it was our number. I then disconnected the internet from the Mac and started Bitdefender which is installed. No results yet as it is still scanning. It kept going aftert eh internet was disconnected, it then went in the subject line typing more nonsense. Anyone know what this it? Malware? Virus? |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1367309 | 2014-02-10 08:06:00 | Poltergeist maybe ?? :eek: OK serious note, is the keyboard wireless ? Did a search and apparently its not uncommon especially with wireless, and bad contacts or low battery power. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1367310 | 2014-02-10 08:10:00 | Mmmm thanks for that. Yes it is the wireless keyboard. Will check the batteries, plod said something about that about my mouse... Only twilight thing is.... How bout our phone number??? Oh and Bitdefender did not found anything | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1367311 | 2014-02-10 08:12:00 | Poltergeist maybe ?? :eek: OK serious note, is the keyboard wireless ? Did a search and apparently its not uncommon especially with wireless, and bad contacts or low battery power.not saying batteries are the cause, but not all AA batteries are the same. Energisers are slightly larger then some of these alcheapo batteries providing better contact. Had issues similar to marks with his mouse. Fixed with new battery |
plod (107) | ||
| 1367312 | 2014-02-10 08:13:00 | Mmmm thanks for that. Yes it is the wireless keyboard. Will check the batteries, plod said something about that about my mouse... Only twilight thing is.... How bout our phone number??? Oh and Bitdefender did not found anything Could be trying to autofill, try turning it off. Not near the mac at the moment so can't remember how to |
plod (107) | ||
| 1367313 | 2014-02-10 08:23:00 | Plod your great mate, I did your pm about the mouse but haven't logged in for a while! Been so busy, mouse is still where I put it the last time, just using another wireless at present, thanks for the advice about auto fill will give that a go!! | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1367314 | 2014-02-10 08:38:00 | My wife was typing an email tonight when she yelled out that the computer was typing by itself. I observed that the email was being typed, lots of weird stuff, nothing recognisable but then it started to type our phone number... From 1 number being wrong it was our number. I then disconnected the internet from the Mac and started Bitdefender which is installed. No results yet as it is still scanning. It kept going aftert eh internet was disconnected, it then went in the subject line typing more nonsense. Anyone know what this it? Malware? Virus? It won't be malware of any sort (there pretty much isn't any) more like you have a key that got stuck. I've never owned any anti virus for Mac, never used any either. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1367315 | 2014-02-10 08:39:00 | Quite likely it might have been auto fill, that can pop up at the most unexpected time | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1367316 | 2014-02-10 17:20:00 | Don't forget to check if a voice recognition program has been activated. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1367317 | 2014-02-10 22:37:00 | Had a problem similar with a wireless keyboard, kept typing as if a key was stuck, think it was low battery. | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||