[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Linux virus?

[simone at saxonwoldprimary.co.za]

Fan-Fraking-Tastic

Quoting David Robert Lewis <ethnopunk at telkomsa.net>:

>
>
> Quintin Beukes wrote:
>> Might be a bit of an old post, but I was just curious if you fixed
>> your problem? I assume so from your last post.
>>
>> I agree that it's probably a broken mouse. When I lift up my optical
>> mouse slightly it starts jumping around like that, and I have found
>> crazy clicking and such when 2 mouse inputs conflict (like a
>> stylus/pen mouse, together with a touch screen and a USB mouse). They
>> don't like each other, especially not 2 separate drivers for getting a
>> pen + touch screen.
>>
>> Q
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za
>> <mailto:dormakorp at vodamail.co.za>> wrote:
>>
>>     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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>> Quintin Beukes
> Hi Quintin,
>
> The problem has gone away. I replaced the mouse, killed the virus,
> capitulated to the hackers, waved the voodoo charm around in the air,
> swung a dead cat above my head,  drank the foul smelling potion of a
> badass warlock, threatened the commisar in charge with a switch to
> mandrake or mandriva and bought a yellow dog spotted hat from a second
> hand store. Ubuntu is working fine for me and never been finer. I am
> however studying-up totally rad security methods by Elvis Kristy and how
> to build a Linux virus in five easy steps, by A Fink. The next time
> anybody flames me for a obvious space-time anomaly I will personally
> inform the Cylons, Klingos, Leprechauns and Space Monkeys that the
> Jabberwok is broken and will never be fixed. Sorry, I got this message
> at about 23:45 in the evening. I am watching Battlestar Galactica, the
> new series.
>
> -DRL
>
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