Doubled Artificial KeyPress

[Ned612]

Hello,

I am having an issue of hotstrings not working due to my actual key pressed being duplicated by a virtual key press. Has anyone seen this type of behavior before and have any recommendations?

Hotstring Script:

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::orange::bannana

Observed Behavior:

• Nothing happens, hotstring is not triggered

Detected Input Log (a proceeding virtual key after each physical key event)

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4F  018	 	d	1.52	o              	
4F  018	a	d	0.00	o              	
52  013	 	d	0.05	r              	
52  013	a	d	0.00	r              	
4F  018	 	u	0.03	o              	
4F  018	a	u	0.00	o              	
52  013	 	u	0.06	r              	
52  013	a	u	0.00	r              	
41  01E	 	d	0.06	a              	
41  01E	a	d	0.00	a              	
41  01E	 	u	0.08	a              	
41  01E	a	u	0.00	a              	
4E  031	 	d	0.06	n              	
4E  031	a	d	0.00	n              	
4E  031	 	u	0.06	n              	
4E  031	a	u	0.00	n              	
47  022	 	d	0.03	g              	
47  022	a	d	0.00	g              	
45  012	 	d	0.11	e              	
45  012	a	d	0.00	e              	
47  022	 	u	0.01	g              	
47  022	a	u	0.00	g              	
45  012	 	u	0.08	e              	
45  012	a	u	0.00	e

Workaround (double each char)

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::oorraannggee::bannana

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
::bannana works fine, no a=Artificial keys detected:

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4F  018	 	d	1.34	o              	
4F  018	 	u	0.13	o              	
52  013	 	d	0.41	r              	
52  013	 	u	0.08	r              	
41  01E	 	d	0.13	a              	
41  01E	 	u	0.16	a              	
4E  031	 	d	0.48	n              	
4E  031	 	u	0.09	n              	
47  022	 	d	0.23	g              	
47  022	 	u	0.13	g              	
45  012	 	d	0.41	e              	
45  012	 	u	0.13	e              	
0D  01C	s	d	0.89	Enter          	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	d	0.00	Backspace      	
08  00E	i	u	0.00	Backspace      	
42  030	i	d	0.00	b              	
42  030	i	u	0.00	b              	
41  01E	i	d	0.00	a              	
41  01E	i	u	0.00	a              	
4E  031	i	d	0.00	n              	
4E  031	i	u	0.00	n              	
4E  031	i	d	0.00	n              	
4E  031	i	u	0.00	n              	
41  01E	i	d	0.00	a              	
41  01E	i	u	0.00	a              	
4E  031	i	d	0.00	n              	
4E  031	i	u	0.00	n              	
41  01E	i	d	0.00	a              	
41  01E	i	u	0.00	a              	
0D  01C	i	d	0.00	Enter          	
0D  01C	i	u	0.00	Enter          	
0D  01C	 	u	0.13	Enter   

Is a secret keylogger running?

[Ned612]

Is a secret keylogger running?

This is one of my fears. I will test the script on some of my other machines and see if I can duplicate it elsewhere. In the meantime, I will start trying some new anti-viruses and looking into active processes...

[Ned612]

So I found the culprit software causing the duplicate virtual keypress - fortunately, it was not a keylogger and was other automation software I use (Ranorex). Is there any way to have AHK ignore virtual keypresses and only listen for actual keypresses (at least in the scope of hotstrings)?