Mouse mishaps in Windows XP

[DisappointedMouse]

Heres the lowdown on my 8 hour work day at home. I come to my computer
this morning and my mouse keeps acting up. The main problem after a
bit of fooling with it turns out to be that the mouse is some how
"anti-click"ing or making multiple clicks in a row. So I figure its
time for some virus research because of the new blast worm. I guess
its time to finally renew my subscription to NAV. I got the new
definitions and started a full system scan. -~No files Infected~-. I
do a little process and application cleanup through msnconfig and task
manager. I come to find VNC, something my brother loaded on to the
computer a while back (8 months) I uninstall and remove it from the
services and startup tabs in task manager. I start doing some research
on the internet about VNC and find out its not a good thing to have on
a home computer. I also remove the VNChooks.dll and WinVNC.exe still
left in the directory. I figure that must be the root of the problem.
Okay reboot time. Now heres where it goes funny. First of all I hear
clicking sounds and beeps that never played before during startup now
playing. I let them go for the time being just to see if the mouse
wont act up. Loads up. It has gone even crazier, now with a right
click the normal menu that pops up disappears. Also if I click the
expand button on the system tray, it expends and contracts back and
forth until a left or right click is made else where. Now I find that
with any stroke of a key, it stops the weird symptoms that were
occuring before and they will not come back. The problem only comes
back with a reboot. Due to the fact that I have a wireless mouse, I
tried a different mouse with a wire and the same things happen so it
must not be the mouse. Still can't seem to solve the problem and I
have tried everything i can think of.

At first I thought the virus was the DeLoader virus which includes
VNC. I did everything at symantec's site to try and fix the computer
for a deloader virus but none of stuff to try did not apply or wasnt
there. I guess it is not DeLoader. I have no clue on how to fix it and
I am worried that the other 3 computers in my network could get it
spread to if I keep them connected.

By the way, everything is up to date. Mouse drivers and windows XP. If
you have seen any other symptoms like this and know the name of the
virus/problem that would greatly help. If you know how to fix it even
better .

Specs of the system (which apply)
1.6 ghz Pentium 4 overclocked to 2.24 ghz (512kb cache)
512 MB memory
Soyo P4S dragon ultra
radeon 7500 or 8500 dont remember
40GB hard drive
Microsoft wireless optical mouse
Windows XP Pro

 

[DisappointedMouse]

I also thought it might have a problem with the USB port so I switched
to P/S 2 port and the same problem is there. Im thinking that startup
loads the program and then hitting any key on the board exits the
program so I can't find out which process is messing it all up. I'm
not sure, but is there anyway I can get to the task manager all
through mouse clicks??? If there is, that is all I need to terminate
the problem. Thanks for any feedback.

 

[DisappointedMouse]

Well I couldn't find a solution for a few days so I went back to using
the computer like normal. Few days later I restart just to see what
happens, and nothing is wrong. No more double clicking or anything. I
restart a few more times and it still doesnt come back. This problem
now worries me even more because I dont know what happened to it. So I
have not really found a solution yet just seem to have got rid of the
problem occuring. While it was still occuring, I tried making a short
cut on the desktop for Task Manager then restarting and clicking it,
but I couldnt find anything process running that went away with a key
stroke.

 

[Siege]

well, i haven't booted for a few days either. my kids always have the
computer running when i get home from work. they are sleeping now so i
don't know if they figured out to hit a keystroke first or if they just
click something innocent (like recycle bin) and just close all the
occurances of the window that open.

You are correct to worry about something that was a problem but then just
went away, i am worried too. I seem to recall that in antoher thread you
mentioned that you ran virus check and spybot and both came up clean. Am i
correct?

I am concerned that an automatic windows update screwed something up. This
wouldn't be the first time this happened. I got an MS NVIDIA driver update
pushed onto my machine that made my video card only able to render 640x480
at 4 bits color depth. It took me three times of accepting the auto update
(after reinstalling the video drivers) to realize that the MS auto update
was screwing up my machine.

Please reply here is you find something and i will do the same.

CJ