Hi everyone, I'm having a very strange problem - my mouse sometimes flips out and moves on it's own. For example, I go to move my mouse to say, the file mene in IE and it takes off toward the bottom of the screen. Then I'll try and move it again and everything will be fine. It happens often but not to the point where I can't use my PC. It's very strange. I have done scans with Norton (fully updated) and Housecall Online - no viruses, trojans or spyware found. Any ideas? Could it be the mouse? or maybe the mouse port?? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Brian 3.0ghz p4 2gbs ddr ram 250gig hdd xp media center 128ddr x300 pci-exp dvd-dl cd 52X

snakeandcrane, sounds like a nasty to me. I know you've scanned, but think I'd do it again. I feel pretty confident that a virus would have been detected and what you describe sounds like a known 'nasty', that leaves a Trojan. Some Trojans can prove to be very adept at hiding. Give A² a whirl at detecting. You can get it free @: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4281.html Be sure to update it prior to using so you have the latest definitions. ??? HTH. Ed in Texas.

Another possible. Mouse cleaning http://www.5starsupport.com/tutorial/mouse.htm http://www.ehow.com/how_113678_clean-fix-mouse.html http://www.showyourlistings.com/news10.html http://www.helpwithpcs.com/maintenance/mouse_problem_maintenance.htm http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_mouse.htm

This happened to me and it was a trojan. Spybot/destroy detected and got rid of it

Thanks for the responses guys. I will try and scan again with a different scanner. I forgot to mention that in addition to scanning with Housecall & Norton - I also scanned with Ad-Aware.

Hello, I have had the same problem on my 5 yr old pc and a brand new one that I hadn't installed anything on. The common denominator here was an optical mouse. It sucks that I think the cursor is in one area and I click and it was actually somewhere else and it closes the window I was working on. Ray