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@ewanmac
Can someone please help me, my mouse seems to have gone crazy and I'm going slightly desperate.
I'm currently away working in Indonesia and for the last 3 weeks have had zero access to my computer at all (it's been in it's case with silica, in a dry bag, in a plastic box) but yesterday I logged onto starbucks wifi and after a short period of normality, my mouse appeared to take on a mind of it's own. it's movement was erratic and often involved clicking, right clicking and dragging as well as toggling the "cmd+tab" menu randomly. My first thought was that someone was inside my computer so I force shut down ASAP. I tried again later from my hotel wired connection and again after a period of normal function it went crazy. I force shut down and then tried without internet connection (unplugged, airport turned off) and the same again… This leads me to believe that my trackpad is broken and reassures me that I don't have an invader.
My computer is an approximately 3 year old macbook pro running snow leopard and I've only just been able to get sophos to run a manual check but no viruses yet.
I'm making a short return visit to the UK in a few weeks but REALLY cannot afford not to be able to work during those weeks. It's taken me an hour to write this message (using text edit) as the mouse keeps fucking things up - it's also already removed most of the icons from my menu bar at the bottom and resized all my icons. Slightly frantic.
A) is this a recognised problem?
B) What can I do about it? No authorised mac dealers around (there may be one in Jakarta but I'm in working in a reasonably remote forest and the nearest town is Balikpapan, where I am now).
oh the only other thing (almost certainly not) worth mentioning is that yesterday, just before the trouble started I bought a new mac pawer adaptor as I left mine in the forest camp. But, while I tried using it in the shop the problems started while I was working on battery before using the charger properly. Anyway I cant see any mechanism that might cause a link.