Irratic Cursor

[Guest]

Regularly I seem to lose control over my cursor. It runs 'wild' all over the
screen automatically opening and closing programmes and selections. I can
sometimes get it to stop by initiating Windows Task Manager, but it is not
always 100% succesful.

I have run full Antivirus checks with AVG with latest updates and also Sybot
with latest update. They all confirm my system clear although it appears to
be a 'virus' based problem to me.

Can anyone suggest what is wrong? Of note my video card is NVIDIA GeForce2
MX/MX 400 with driver nv4_mini.sys 12 March 2004. I have downloaded the
update for NVIDIA from WINDOWS UPDASTE but the installation always fails.
Could this be a factor?

 

[Jon]

Certainly a wild script / program running in the background could easily
cause that kind of behaviour.

Call up Task Manager and close any instances of wscript.exe running, if any.


A program like autoruns can help you to examine startup programs and help
you to remove
any unnecessary / suspicious programs (search on Google until you can
recognize each one)

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/autoruns.html


Jon

 

[WC]

Does the problem happen in safe mode?

If not, perform clean boot troubleshooting.

If yes, I'll be you $$s to doughnuts that you have a virus
missed by AVG.

WC

 

[Guest]

I have not run for any period of time in safe mode but I will try and see if
the problem exists there. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Guest]

I have run autoruns and cannot identify any wild or unknown programme. I will
check Task Manager next time it occurs to look for wscript.exe as you suggest.
Thanks for suggestions so far.

 

[Jon]

Unless you had any specific problems with the original NVidia video drivers,
and have a copy of the original NVidia Video drivers on disk, you could try
reinstalling / rolling back the video drivers to the original ones eg via
Device Manager / System Restore. Could well be a problem with the NVidia
update itself.

Jon

 

[Guest]

Here's an idea (and yes i do realise that it is not a technical one) remove
your mousemat and try the mouse firstly on the top of your desk directly and
if that doesn't work try putting a plain sheet of A4 paper in between it and
your desk....let me know if this works you may be surprised