Trackpad mouse moving on its own and creating new folder on desktop
This stared a few weeksd ago, I've lost control of my macbook pro as my mouse has a mind of its own.
The laptop barely(or even not at all) responds to my control. It's like there was somebody else controlling my mouse, my keyboard works fine however. The guy hacking me looked at my mailbox, dropped a few things from the dock, made a new folder on the desktop and opened my photos. I've tried everything including turning off wi-if, my reuter and under "system preferences" unclicked "sharing" of anything. I also took it to the genius bar to have my laptop wiped and updated to OS X Mountain Lion.
Last week, my mouse again started to move on its own and created a new folder on my destop.
I don't know if anyone has the same experience...and if so, please let me know what is going on and is there a solution?
Thank you
Woah, I just got this really sketchy email a few hours later. It's a bounce back from an invalid address, but it includes the previous few messages too... these guys are definitely speaking in some sort of code.
I pasted it on this google doc for your inspection, pretty crazy. Do you think it could be related to this cursor moving incident? Did I get remotely hacked or something?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlP_g-skisehtH-kEMKPvYjDL5hrhyGPBcCpS_L4_AI/ edit?hl=en_US
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