VIRUS?: Mouse moving without me

[PJ]

about 40 mins ago, i was browsing this forum when suddenly my mouse went completely spack - it moved all around the screen as if someone was controlling it.:O it turned my computer straight off by holding the power button.
i am hoping my computer has not been hacked and it is a mouse fault - maybe a delay, as i could not move it, i frantically moved my mouse, and maybe my mouse moved like 5 seconds after i moved it.

can anybody help me? it is the first time it has happenned. my mouse has spacked out before, but not like this. and yes it is optical

 

[No Limit]

A virus wouldn't do something like this, there are much better ways to control your computer than taking control of the mouse. Sometimes the hardware/driver will spaz out, not really anything unusual. Run malwarebytes if you are truly worried.

 

[Nitre]

If you've got a laser mouse you might have a hair or something stuck in the lens, happens to mine sometimes and the pointer goes haywire.

 

[PJ]

thanks a lot guys I have a feeling it was some dust on the lens.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

If your mouse is battery powered, that's usually a sign that it's time to replace the batteries.

 

[Iron Kat]

My cursor moves on its own sometimes as well. Freaks me out when that happens!

 

[bam23]

plug in an older mouse and check agian cause i doubt a virus would do something like that

 

[OmegaX]

Happens to cheaper laser mouses all the time. Just clean it off. I remember it would happen to me when I was playing CSS a long time back...I was like wtf?

 

[Barney Fife]

My cursor once moved on it's own and deleted a file without me, Then I went WTF! And that's when I saw my hand bushing the mouse, clicking "Delete," and I went "Oh! You MOFO" and that's when I realized I was drunk so I went to sleep.

The End.

No one jacked mouses since Win98. just clean the mouse and you'll be OK.:thumbs:

Good Luck.

 

[staticprimer]

Certainly not a virus. I'm wagering ghost(s).

 

[Krynn72]

internet ghosts

 

[MorganFreeman911]

SHIT not internet goasts AGAIN.

 

[CyberPitz]

I've had the moving mouse problem. This was, of course, many years ago...can't remember if it was Optical or Balls *lol*. Either way, I'd stop moving the mouse and sometimes it would just keep going in the same direction..A quick move would resolve that.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

^ i have the same problem sometimes. It just moves but you aren't holding it and the mouse stands still.

 

[Barney Fife]

Everyone, Quit whining and hold that mouse like a man. :|

 

[PJ]

My cursor once moved on it's own and deleted a file without me, Then I went WTF! And that's when I saw my hand bushing the mouse, clicking "Delete," and I went "Oh! You MOFO" and that's when I realized I was drunk so I went to sleep.

The End.

No one jacked mouses since Win98. just clean the mouse and you'll be OK.:thumbs:

Good Luck.

i'm pretty sure i wasnt drunk lol. my mouse is a cheap logitech - it has never really failed me, except for when my whole computer freezes like in my other thread. (the other thread is marked with an (Angry) emoticon)