Mouse/Cursor Driving Me Nuts! Help!

[AbsntMndedProf]

I don't know if anyone here can help me, but I'm at my wits end. For quite a while now my cursor has periodically developed a mind of its own. For various periods of time the cursor seems to move at random, opening and closing aps, files, and windows. For short periods of time I am able to regain control of the cursor with the mouse. Either by placing my PC on standby and resuming operations or just by chance(?).

I thought that my mechanical mouse might have become defective, so I purchased a light activated mouse, and for a short while that seemed to fix things. Now I'm back to square one. Also, I've had to reinstall the drivers for the light activated mouse quite a few times, as periodically my computer 'forgets' that my new mouse is plugged in.

I'm running the home version of windows xp with service pack 2. Has anyone else encountered this type of problem? How did you fix it? Any help will be greatly appreciated, as I'm about two steps away from taking a baseball bat to my PC![:@]

Eric Maietta

[Marc von Martial]

Did you do a proper virus can yet?

[Capt. Harlock]

If the cursor is opening and closing windows and apps, that would imply a "mouse click" command is being issued, not just mouse movement commands. My best guess is that a spyware or virus "trojan" has been put in your computer, allowing someone else to issue commands remotely. (This is a capability built in to Windows.) I would disconnect any network or internet access, and do a full anti-virus and anti-spyware check.

[chief]

Have u checked ur mouse properties lately, just a thought.

[Daedalu]

I had a soldier at the Fort bring me a computer from his house on base. And he had almost the same issue , he had a mouse that was hard wired and then we got him one that was wireless and he still had the same issue. I did a virus search on his computer as this is what it is most of the time. But I could not find a virus, and while his computer was at my house being worked on the mouse did not do this.
I found that when I took it back and started it up the problem came back and after searching for a few hours I found that it had something to do with his wireless INTERNET card.
This card was a generic brand card, and somehow it was picking up the wireless mouse from the houses next door to him.
Please do not ask me how , because I do not know. But when I put in a new name brand wireless networking card into the computer it stopped.
If you do not find anything else causing this,like a virus or what ever , and you have wireless networking please check this.As nuts as it is , that was what the cause was.