A 'Ghost' is 'left clicking' through the night!

UnionSpace · Dec 4, 2011

Hi MG's :major,

I work in the electronics/IT world and know quite a bit about PC's and avoiding malware etc which I have been successful with for many years now.

Just wondering if you could help me with something I'm stuck on? I leave my laptop running jdownloader through the night and have noticed in the morning that something has made jdownloader go full screen.

As a 'sniffer' I left W7 screen recorder running on numerous nights and sure enough it records various amounts of left clicks of the mouse even though no one has used the machine in that period. An example is below with 29 clicks that particular night. (The term 'Problem Steps' is Microsofts term for 'events' btw)

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Recording Session: 02/12/2011 01:24:47 AM - 08:12:14 AM

Problem Steps: 29, Missed Steps: 0, Other Errors: 0

Operating System: 7601.17640.amd64fre.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506 6.1.1.0.2.3

Problem Step 1: User left clicked
Program: Windows Explorer, 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255), Microsoft Corporation, EXPLORER.EXE, EXPLORER.EXE
UI Elements: FolderView, SysListView32, SHELLDLL_DefView, WorkerW

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Problem Step 1: (02/12/2011 01:37:42 AM) User left clicked
Problem Step 2: (02/12/2011 01:40:27 AM) User left clicked
Problem Step 3: (02/12/2011 01:40:39 AM) User left clicked
Problem Step 4: (02/12/2011 01:40:39 AM) User left clicked
...
Problem Step 27: (02/12/2011 02:26:34 AM) User left clicked
Problem Step 28: (02/12/2011 02:29:23 AM) User left clicked

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I have done various antivirus scans which all report everything is clean.
The program I'm using currently is Microsoft Security Essentials. Maybe not the best one but i have tried Avast, AVG, etc. I also have S&D and Ad-Aware installed. I use VirSCAN.org to pre-scan any files prior to install also.

Any ideas what could be causing the left click as last night it managed to close W7 screen recorder for the first time. The clicks on the screen seem to be in random places - like it's doing it blind hoping to get lucky and click something useful. Another run here.

Problem Step 22: (07/11/2011 02:17:00 AM) User left clicked
Problem Step 23: (07/11/2011 02:19:59 AM) User left click in "JDownloader"
Problem Step 24: (07/11/2011 02:27:44 AM) User left click in "JDownloader"
Problem Step 25: (07/11/2011 02:28:02 AM) User left click in "JDownloader"
Problem Step 26: (07/11/2011 02:28:32 AM) User left clicked

.... more left clicks then...

Problem Step 46: (07/11/2011 03:41:33 AM) User left click in "JDownloader"

... more downloader clicks then...

Problem Step 50: (07/11/2011 03:48:15 AM) User left click in "JDownloader"
Problem Step 51: (07/11/2011 03:56:19 AM) User left clicked

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Recording Session: 07/11/2011 01:16:26 AM - 07:27:12 AM

Problem Steps: 121, Missed Steps: 0, Other Errors: 0

Operating System: 7601.17640.amd64fre.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506 6.1.1.0.2.3

I'm not sure what is causing this and would really really like to know what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated

many thanks
Peter :confused

Kestrel13! · Dec 4, 2011

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A 'Ghost' is 'left clicking' through the night!

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