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Weird Mouse Problem: My curser repels my desktop icons (Chases them around/ Can not click on them)!!!!!

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Herkulese

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My mouse has developed the ability to repell my desk top icons. When I boot up, all is well, untill I open an application or two, after which I am not able to click on any icons. The curser simply repils the desktop icons and makes a big mess of them.

Here is what I have done to my system in the last couple of days.
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I have been haveing some instability problems in 3D games, and wondered if it was to do with the AC97 sound chip, so I did the following.
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ITEM 1) Installed VIA 4-1 ver 4.37,
then installed VIA AGP dvr ver 4.10b.

ITEM 2) Unininstaled Det ver 23.11 and NVMax,
rebooted and deleted all remnents of both,
rebooted and deleted all registry keys for both,
rebooted and installed Det ver 25.71.

ITEM 3) Installed AMD Win2k Reg Patch.

ITEM 4) Uninstalled VIA DMA/IDETool as I read not for use with Win2k,
rebooted and removed registry key.

ITEM 5) Deleted all traces of the ac97 sound dvrs in SAFE MODE Device Manager,
rebooted and removed registry key,
rebooted and installed the latest VIA ac97 driver.

ITEM 5) Set AGP 2x in bios.
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rberus,

I looked at the link that you supplied, and the example of being infedted for two months, where the Icons seem to be running away from the curser, is exactly what my issue looks like.

Looks like I had better do a full scan, and soon.

Thanks
 
You had to be joking not to notice that... 😉
Icons "running" away doesn't sound like something accidental (As a genuine hardware problem would be)
 
That's a nasty virus man. I got sent that virus once as an attachment, but Norton caught it and quarantined it before any wacky hijinks ensued.

From their site:

Erases CMOS (Windows 9x/Me only)
Erases the Flash BIOS (Windows 9x/Me only)

I see you're running W2K so you'll be spared that part of the virus. But that's serious business, bud. Don't hesitate on that scan. Also scan any media you've created lately (CD's, floppies, etc) and make sure they're clean too. I know you'd hate to burn some mp3's for a buddy only to infect his computer. Not a good way to make friends!
 
MP3s aren't executable, but people are finding some creative buffer overflows! The best one I saw was years ago (~1997), where some guy called Titanik released a copied N64 game (ROM dump) with a PC virus in it. Why a PC virus for an N64 you ask? Because someone made a PC program to remove his custom intro (That would play when the ROM first booted up on the N64) from the downloaded ROM file and restore the ROM data to its untouched form. When you used the utility on the new ROM, it would spill data into memory and get it to run executable code from the other virus, without you ever running anything executable other than the program that was attacked. If WinAMP had a flaw like that, I'm sure any virus using it would spread like nothing this world has ever seen!
 
it definately sounds like a virus. 🙂
make sure you update your virus definition before doing the scan.
 


<< MP3s aren't executable, but people are finding some creative buffer overflows! The best one I saw was years ago (~1997), where some guy called Titanik released a copied N64 game (ROM dump) with a PC virus in it. Why a PC virus for an N64 you ask? Because someone made a PC program to remove his custom intro (That would play when the ROM first booted up on the N64) from the downloaded ROM file and restore the ROM data to its untouched form. When you used the utility on the new ROM, it would spill data into memory and get it to run executable code from the other virus, without you ever running anything executable other than the program that was attacked. If WinAMP had a flaw like that, I'm sure any virus using it would spread like nothing this world has ever seen! >>


Yeah, I was just throwing something out there, but I think you get my meaning about infecting someone unintentionally. 😉
 
"You had to be joking not to notice that...
Icons "running" away doesn't sound like something accidental (As a genuine hardware problem would be)

This just started late last night.

"Guess you should head over to that "Do you run antivirus" Poll and vote a resounding No."

I am running McAfee 4.5 with the latest SupperDat updates from a couple of weeks ago, but I had the system scan disabled while I was doing some stability testing. I thought that it would still check e-mail and web stuff and simply bypass the system. I guess that I was wrong. Oh well, I guess it's not the first Stupid thing thing that I have ever done, and probably not the last.

I have downloaded the Latest Supper Dats today and will do a complete scan tonight when I get home.

I have not sent any e-mail from that PC in over a month, alghough I have received a lot in that time, so I know that no one has been infected that way.

I will also check all of the Flopies, CD's and Zip disks that I have made, just to make sure that they are clean.
 
Hay Guys,
I downloaded the latest McAfee 4.5 SupperDats and have done a complete scan of my system, as well as the media that I have made recently. The media showed no infections found. My PC, was another story. There were approx. 70 infected files, of which around 10 had to be deleted.I simply kept track of the programs that these files came from and then rebooted ane reinstalled those applications.
I then rebooted and scanned again and all showed clear.

When I went to run Pod Racer, my favorite game/stability tester, it seemed to load slow and then when the game actually started to come in, a McAfee virus window came up saying that a file on the CD was infected, but did not say what virus was to blame.
I found it hard to beleive that a 2 or 3 year old Retail CD could be infected and not show up till now, so I uninstalled and deleted all traces of Pod Racer, both files and Registry entries.

I then ran another complete scan, found nothing, then reinstalled the game, only to find the same thing. Sometimes, however it says that a Boot file is infected, and, again, does not give the virus name.

Could my Master Boot Record be infected and, and would that cause this virus to show up as if it was on the CD, even though the CD and my computer show up clean?
 
"Yes, your MBR could be infected, but I doubt it...It is probably a false alarm."

Could an infected boot record cause the virus report regarding files on the Retail CD itself?

What else might cause this? Could it be registry entries associated with a virus, that may not have been removed?

 
Hmmm.... My copy of PodRacer was stolen in a CD case w/ hundreds of other CDs so I can't test this... Sorry 🙁
 
It seems that my MBR was infected. I ran FIXBOOT from the Win2k Repair Console and I no longer get the Virus message when loading Pod Racer. Racer aslo runs a lot better than before, alghough still freezes after 4 or 5 races.

I also installed McAfee 6.02 with the latest virus defs and found another infected file on my 😀 partition that version 4.5 missed.I will also try NAV as soon as I get the chance to install it. That is, given that is is actually part of Norton System Works 2001.

Thanks for the help.
 


<< It seems that my MBR was infected. I ran FIXBOOT from the Win2k Repair Console and I no longer get the Virus message when loading Pod Racer. Racer aslo runs a lot better than before, alghough still freezes after 4 or 5 races.

I also installed McAfee 6.02 with the latest virus defs and found another infected file on my 😀 partition that version 4.5 missed.I will also try NAV as soon as I get the chance to install it. That is, given that is is actually part of Norton System Works 2001.

Thanks for the help. >>


You may want to throw some penicillin in there too.......just in case. 😉
 
"You may want to throw some penicillin in there too.......just in case. "

That deserves some consideration, and believe me, if there was a way to put it in there, the I.V. already be hooked up.
 
OK, I did a complete system scan with McAfee 4.5 and the latest ver 4x virus defs, and repaired or deleted all infected files.

I still had an odd virus screen when entering certain programs, so I ran the Win2k Repair (FixBoot) utility to overwrite the MBR.

I, then, removed all traces of 4.5 and installed McAfee 6.2, with the latest def for ver 6x virus defs and did a complete system scan and found no more files.

Finally, I disabled McAfee 6.2 and installed Norton System Works 2001 with the latest NAV 2001 virus deffs and did yet another complete system scann. Norton found 2 more infected files, from the same virus, that McAfee missed.

I have left McAfee disabled for now and am using NAV instead.

 
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