My mouse intermittently jumps all over the screen. I'm fine for a while, but then all on it's own, it does a bunch or random things on my desktop, like moving or resizing my taskbar, selecting and deselecting all of my desktop icons, creating additional shortcuts for some of the icons, attempts to delete an icon, resizes an open window, puts up a bunch of right mouse clicks -- just about everything I could do on my own, it does all by itself -- in very quick succession -- and it lasts about five seconds, and then I'm fine again for a while, then is starts all over again. I have no control of the mouse when it goes through this spaz attack. I haven't installed any new software recently, except for the newest version of AIM. Can anyone help?

try using another mouse to see if its the mouse problem or ur computer might be hacked by hackers. try to get off the internet and lan and try again

Hi Mike. Run your virus checker, it looks like you may have picked up a virus. If you dont have a good Virus checker get it checked by one online. Have a nice day.

Mike, As Oldhobo stated your computer may be infected with the W32.Magistr.24876@mm virus or one of its variants. Check out the MAGISTR VIRUS link below my name(Homepage:) which has a picture of the mouse pointer jumping around the screen. Update your virus definitions and run a full scan. If you don't have an Anti-virus Program go to the link below and run the Free Housecall Virus Scan. http://housecall.antivirus.com/ Good Luck Tufenuf

Either one or all of the above responses and or maybe someone loaded slippery on the computer. It is a small utility that will make your mouse jump all over the place and is the latest joke program people are using. Not a real funny joke for people that need to use their computers.

Of course, virus-checking is always in order... but in this case, IMHO, since it is the mouse cursor that jumps around, not the icons (as is the case with Magistr after 2 months of infection), the cause is elsewhere: I have experienced that kind of random cursor movement (fast, too!) a few times, and in each case, the mouse itself was defective. Try another mouse, and see. Still do a thorough virus scan anyway...

THANKS to everyone who suggested different things for my MOUSE problem. I have Norton Antivirus 2000, ran LiveUpdate and ran the scan twice (it checks for W32.Magistr.24876@mm), so that wasn't it. I also checked out slippery mouse, but that wasn't it. Since I don't have an extra mouse, I deleted the old mouse driver (was for a wheel mouse) and loaded the PS2 mouse driver (for the P.O.S. mouse I have now). That was it. But I switched mice over six months ago.... Thanks again for all your help!