[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Linux virus?

[frans]

In our office we see that a lot, especialy when the mouse cable was
streched to far, the result is
a short circut, which do stuff like that,  replacing the mouse solves
the problem, also rather consider
genius or logitech, we have less problems with those.


David Robert Lewis wrote:
> Not sure what to make of this weird behaviour.
>
> Mouse is acting very strangely, spazzes out, jumps around starts to 
> click on things. I even get logged out of my session.
>
> Started doing this a couple of days ago, and then just froze up.
>
> I fixed the freeze by unloading psmouse (sudo modprobe -r psmouse)
>
> and then reloading it.
>
> Then I figured it might be the versioning, and I reloaded by stripping 
> out the version info
>
> sudo modprobe -f psmouse
>
> This worked, unfroze but now mouse is back to its old tricks.
>
> It feels like a hack attack, or some kind of virus?
>
> Alternatively could be something to do with java and xulrunner, because 
> it happens only when I have a browser open?
>
> Any ideas?
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