mouse acting weird

[piaqt]

My mouse sometime stops responding altogether, for no apparent reason. Yes, I've cleaned it. Un- and re-plugging it in correct this, but...

Then there's the opposite: Sometimes I get right-clicks that I didn't do, things opening & closing, ditto, etc.

Sounds like what Chris did to his boss's laptop, but if so, I can't find the culprit.

Maybe I just need a new mouse. Any ideas?

[BAH]

get a new mouse they arnt expensive and prove if its the mouse or pc

[FthrJACK]

you may have a trojan, i hope you have a firewall and antivirus pia... if so scan your system

[ThA_FiLeR]

I also used to have that right click crap, I dont know what it was, finally i got myself a new mouse (Logitech Trackball) and re-installed windows, now i never have any problems with it.

[piaqt]

Thanks, guys. tris: Will NAV scan for trojans?

[harrytb]

don't know about NAV,but this will.

http://www.simplysup.com/private/trj/trjsetup.exe

go here for details.

http://www.simplysup.com/tremover/

[Blackwar]

The Cleaner from Moo Soft also works VERY well

[LS_Dragons]

One other suggestion - not about the not responding, but the odd 'right-clicks'. If you are running Office XP, it installs by default some crappy voice recognition app. If installed, your microphone can pick up odd sounds here and there and try to obey commands - usually looks like right-clicks, or menus opening even though you didn't click on them etc. Absolutely must un-install. I don't want to talk to a stupid computer anyway - even if it could understand me correctly.

LS

[piaqt]

I don't want to talk to a stupid computer anyway - even if it could understand me correctly.

LS [/quote:8e85a4714a]

Neither do I -- because by the time I'm talking to the **** thing, I don't want it to learn that kind of language!

[zErO]

If you have scanned for Trojans pia and didnt you system came up clean. Then maybe try a different mouse for a while before you go and buy another one. Are you running your current one off usb or ps/2. My Logitech optical stops after a while when I run it under xp using usb. I used to have to unplug it and then plug it back in to get to respond. In the end I just put it on a ps/2 adapter and it runs flawlessly

[piaqt]

I got a new mouse (MS wheelmouse optical) with both USB & ps2 adapters. works fine. musta been the minute amount of OJ I splilled on the old one.