VERY strange - please help!

[delmore]

Last night I was logged on as administrator on a PC with WIN XP prof,
and while connected to the internet via dialup connection something very bizarre happened.

When I went to my web mail page - where it asks you to enter username and password, text from what appeared to be instant messaging appeared in the "user name" field. The field would fill up, and then I could blank it out, and it would fill up again. There would be some text, then some garbage **** that would turn into text. I closed the internet connection, and some of the text continued to fill the field.

I rebooted, re-established dial up and the same thing happened! I rebooted a second time and the text no longer appeared.

I am current on my Norton firewall and internet security. I went to liveupdate just to make sure.

Just before this happened I was on the t-mobile web site, and logged in.

Any ideas what this could be??? THANKS!!!!!


Thanks!!!

[Joshua]

Possibly the Autofill option in IE going buggy on you?

It's also possible that the authentication on your web page somehow started intercepting incoming IM text??

[delmore]

Snotrocket, I don't think it is the autofill. It looks like text entered from a telnet session - the text filled slowly, with garbage that turned into text. Does it sound like a trojan horse virus? I'm going to check the firewall trusted zones tonight.

[sho.gun]

You don't happen to have gator installed do you?

[ray]

Download AdAware and Spybot. install both proggies and run them.

See if you still have recurring problems