Had some strange happenings...

... on my computer this morning.

I was working away when I needed to format a floppy disk. I use this once in a while. I placed the disk in the drive and I was asked if I wanted to format the disk. Clicked ok.

Then my mouse pointer went walk about, moving to the top left corner of the screen, then my start menu opened, at this point I grabbed the mouse and wrestled control back. I opened my firewall to view my activity log to see if there was anything obvious, there was nothing. I use Zone Alarm Pro (paid for) and the firewall log, which is activated from a drop down box changed back to the anti-spyware option in the drop down.
Since I installed my router Zone Alarm has gone quiet on the incoming stuff which is to be expected.

Again my start menu opened then closed.

Ok so now I'm paranoid so I've done a full scan with AdAware and Spybot and found nothing save a couple of tracking cookies. They would have been from this morning's activity as I clean them out daily.
Zone Alarm scans my PC for SpyWare daily as does Windows Defender.

This has happened previously but I put it down to a conflict between my Pen Tablet and the mouse that time.

I've rebooted in the mean time and there is no more activity.

Are there any other conspiracy theories out there?

Maurice
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