Solve : Can my mouse have a virus?

1.	Solve : Can my mouse have a virus?
Answer» http://www.amazon.in/DragonWar-ELE-G7-Bluetrack-Gaming-Function/dp/B00IJ69B0M this is my mouse, i used it for my old computer, and this computer full of virus. And now i use this mouse for my new PC, can my computer be infected from my mouse?No. Really? Oh thx G, im so scared because my last computer have many many dangerous virusIs this for real? The mouse could have a virus. Where has it been? The only solution is to get a virgin mouse. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/100743/can-my-mouse-have-virus-and-infect-other-machines Quote c't (a German computer Magazin) once discovered mice offered as gifts were reacting to signs on mousepads. These mice then tried to send keyboard strokes to the computer. Of course the article is only in German and you can only read part if it The ASSERTION has been made that a mouse does not have enough silicon space to hold a virus.But this has not been verified. I have used many mouse in different brand. Pointer could freeze sometime but I haven't encounter it. Not unless I plug usb stick from other computer who had virus.The OP needs to get another mouse and run virus scans. How he got the virus is less important. He needs to get rid of it.No. It is not possible. a virus in mouse Quote from: ZAHID TOG on September 28, 2015, 10:17:17 AM No. It is not possible. a virus in mouse CITATION needed. Three and four years ago the answer was yes. Do you proof that this has somehow changed? Here is a link to a social blog. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-update/my-mouse-is-uncontrollable-possible-virus/526fd59c-7a96-4665-8244-0b3fc0451b67?auth=1 The post had many contributors. The general answer was to just get another mouse.

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this is my mouse, i used it for my old computer, and this computer full of virus. And now i use this mouse for my new PC, can my computer be infected from my mouse?No.
Really? Oh thx G, im so scared because my last computer have many many dangerous virusIs this for real?
The mouse could have a virus. Where has it been?
The only solution is to get a virgin mouse.
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/100743/can-my-mouse-have-virus-and-infect-other-machines
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c't (a German computer Magazin) once discovered mice offered as gifts were reacting to signs on mousepads. These mice then tried to send keyboard strokes to the computer. Of course the article is only in German and you can only read part if it

The ASSERTION has been made that a mouse does not have enough silicon space to hold a virus.But this has not been verified.
I have used many mouse in different brand. Pointer could freeze sometime but I haven't encounter it. Not unless I plug usb stick from other computer who had virus.The OP needs to get another mouse and run virus scans.
How he got the virus is less important. He needs to get rid of it.No. It is not possible. a virus in mouse Quote from: ZAHID TOG on September 28, 2015, 10:17:17 AM

No. It is not possible. a virus in mouse

CITATION needed.
Three and four years ago the answer was yes.
Do you proof that this has somehow changed?
Here is a link to a social blog.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-update/my-mouse-is-uncontrollable-possible-virus/526fd59c-7a96-4665-8244-0b3fc0451b67?auth=1
The post had many contributors.
The general answer was to just get another mouse.

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