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 ] Recently my mouse has started to act less then obedient. It will work fine
 ]for hours (or sometimes just minutes) and then , badabing badaboom, every
 ]direction is reversed, up is down, down is up, left is.... well you get the 
 ]idea. The only way to fix this is to save what I'm doing and cold start it.
 ]
 ] Could this just be my mouse or is it something inside my box? 
 ]
 ] Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 ]
 ]
 ]Thanks.
 ] Steve Matson.

Ah ha!!!  It sounds like you have a boot sector virus.  I forget the name of
it, but if it is what I think it is... it is a typical boot sector virus that
is probably jumping around in your floppies.  this virus has a counter and
waits until it has made 5 copies of itself before it starts randomly reversing
the direction of the mouse pointer.

My friend gave this virus to me once, but he discovered it earlier since it had
a chance to make 5 copies on his system before mine.  He informed me, and I
just used a simple virus utility like Virus Kill to clean up my discs.

We've been very lucky here in Atariland that it is relatively difficult to
become infected.  With few of us around and not many people going through the
trouble, I guess we haven't gotten around to selling big virus killing software
like our cousins...


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