Help: I can not control my laptop random things opening and changing; its like someone else is controlling it!!
About a week ago, my laptop starting having a mind of its own. First the trackpad stopped working properly as it wouldn't move across the desktop or the cursor would show up at random places or would be really slow. Then a few days later, I would be typing in pages and all of a sudden iphoto would open or some other random program. At times, the computer will be fine, at other times, it just randomly open and closes different programs, opens the dashboard, or I could be typing and all of a sudden its starts typing at a random place 4 paragpahs previously or it opens up firefox and starts typing there. It is driving me crazy!! I use my laptop for work and planning as I am a teacher but its getting to the point that I do not want to use it all.
Just as i was typing this, iphoto opened, it opened another tab in my browser, it scrolled down to the bottom of my page and it continued my typing in the middle of the paragpah above!!
Please, can someone help! Its like someone has taken over my computer.
You will have to forgive me as I am not very computer literate.
I have been using Macs for years and have had OS X for a while and never had an issue until the past week.
A few comments/questions/responses for you:
Are you saying that if I am typing a document in Pages, it is possible for any program in the dock to open at the same time as I am typing without me going to the dock itself? Or if I am loooking at a certain site, another random site can open easily?
I turned off my internet connection and there were no irrational movements. I also went into the activity monitor/network. With the internet off, their was still data being sent and received?? And there were spikes being seen even though the internet was off, does this sound correct? As I am typing now, there are consistent high spikes being received and low sporadic spikes for data being sent. Peak is 10 KB/sec. How do I investiate a spike?
I also just had 2 other people work on my computer to see if it is just me, but they had similar issues.
Thanks for your response, hopefully we can get this figured out, as I live 8 hours away from a Mac store or help centre. I will also download that virus package.
Thanks!!
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