Computer Security & Viruses/Epileptic Mouse Cursor

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Expert: Lorry - 2/8/2008


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For the past few weeks, our computor has had a problem with the cursor jumping around to the right side of the screen randomly.  Restarting the computor used to fix it, but not anymore.  We have AVG, avast!, Spybot, Webroot, and ZoneAlarm on our computor, but none of them have found anything that fixed the problem.  We've cleaned the mouse balls twice.  Is this possibly a virus affecting the software?  It's really frustrating!!!  Help would be appriciated!

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Hi Leah,

Not knowing what kind of mouse you use, check out the following for information:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321122

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/weird_leaping_mouse_problems.html

Hope this helps!
Lorry

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I can answer most questions regarding viruses/Trojans and help to remove them.

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This happens to be of interest to me as it boggles my mind that people have nothing better to do than to write a virus. Wish these people, the ones who write viruses would put the knowledge to good use instead. My job as a local tech involves removing viruses and/or spyware.

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