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re: Cursor Moving On Its Own! Friday, March 17, 2006 at 10:15 am Posted by Pete Fellows (210 messages posted) Have you a firewall installed? If not then try Zone Alarm its free. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cursor Moving On Its Own! Friday, March 17, 2006 at 1:59 pm Posted by Llamallamadingdong (404 messages posted) Let me guess... Laser Mouse? Is it also a wireless mouse? If it's not wireless, it prob just needs to be cleaned/ calibrated. If it is wireless, it prob still needs cleaned and calibrated, and it also may be picking up someone elses wireless mouse signal. Stranger things have happened... On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 5:58 am, Millie wrote: >Once in a while my cursor will start moving left to right, and even clicking on things >as if my computer has been hijacked, I try to fight it and it will keep going so >I just have to wait and eventually it will stop- I have run Mcafee virus scan, hijack >this, adaware, and spybot and it doesn't see any problems with my computer. As the >mouse was moving I unplugged it to see if it was something wrong with the mouse but >the cursor kept moving even though the mouse was unplugged! I have checked the accessibility >options for the mouse and the mouse keys are not enabled- I don't know what is going >on- is it a virus or something else?? Any ideas?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cursor Moving On Its Own! Monday, March 20, 2006 at 2:00 am Posted by Millie (10 messages posted) I have a mcafee firewall installed and it still goes on if I have it on lockdown- If I unplug my internet connection it still happens, and even if I unplug the mouse it happens! I have a usb mouse that plugs in and so I assume there's nothing wrong with the mouse. On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 5:58 am, Millie wrote: >Once in a while my cursor will start moving left to right, and even clicking on things >as if my computer has been hijacked, I try to fight it and it will keep going so >I just have to wait and eventually it will stop- I have run Mcafee virus scan, hijack >this, adaware, and spybot and it doesn't see any problems with my computer. As the >mouse was moving I unplugged it to see if it was something wrong with the mouse but >the cursor kept moving even though the mouse was unplugged! I have checked the accessibility >options for the mouse and the mouse keys are not enabled- I don't know what is going >on- is it a virus or something else?? Any ideas?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum