Is someone reading/checking my post while I am typing it?

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DaveP

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The mouse thing is probably related to a touchpad anomaly if it is a touch pad type mouse. If not, I'd update the driver, clean the optical sensor inside and/or the ball and rollers. Other than that it might be something in the editing software for the forums.

When that happens to me, it's a proximity thing with the scroll section of my touchpad. I keep it enable so I can scroll with my finger. It's a pain sometimes, though. It senses my skin when I don't want to scroll and my cursor ends up in never never land.

A few days ago Microsoft Security Essentials caught and quarantined a virus rated as severe while I was online to ECF. I exited FireFox and dealt with the virus in the vault by deleting it. It was a java exploit that was contained in a temp directory.

After I got clean and rebooted, ECF was off line for a while. The IP address wouldn't respond to a ping or even an NSLookup. They were down. I think it went through the board and to users who were online. I never heard an announcement about it.

Everyone might want to do a quick scan just in case.
 
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Uma

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That happens to me constantly, but I'm on a laptop. I hate when whole sentences delete themselves as well as jumping cursor that likes to insert my typing into other sentences.

I have to use CTRL + F3 for anything long winded, even in notepad. CTRL + F3 will disengage the touchpad, and using them again will re-engage the touchpad.
 
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