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Touchpad problems - virus related?

  • 05-12-2009 11:01pm
    #1
    nmacc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭


    This is a strange one.

    A friend came round last night with a faulty Toshiba laptop (Vista HP). She had received a mail containing a virus, but AVG had (apparently) stopped her opening the embedded link. Oddly enough after this her touchpad/glidepad had gone mad, behaving very erratically.

    Funnily enough it was fine on battery operation, but chaotic on mains. She changed from the Toshiba power brick to a generic and, although the laptop seemed generally fine, the touchpad now wouldn't work at all. A USB mouse is fine on all types of power.

    A full scan with a fully-updated AVG 9 revealed no problems, but the person who had sent her the infected link reported that her touchpad was also going wild.

    The Toshiba had also stopped burning DVDs.

    I tried a DVD and got the report: 'Disk cannot be formatted' I therefore took out the disk and put it into my Acer laptop (Vista HP) to see if it could recognize the disk. As soon as I tried to access the disk, my own trackpad went wild!

    As you can imagine I suspected a virus and immediately ran a full scan of all files, also using the latest AVG. Again, all clear. At the other side of the room I had a Dell laptop (XP Pro), switched on and on the network. When I went to it I found that it's trackpad was also misbehaving!

    Several scans (all clear), several reboots and a night's rest seems to have sorted mine out. But the original Toshiba is still faulty.

    Any thoughts?


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