Do you know what else would cause symptoms like these?

• A defective keyboard, mouse, touchpad or motherboard
• Buggy Bluetooth hardware/firmware
• Electrical interference (EMI)
• Radio signals from any number of sources interfering with a wireless keyboard/mouse
• A neighbour using the same (persumably cheap) wireless keyboard/mouse as yourself

You may want to eliminate the above factors before drawing the rather improbable conclusion that some elite hackers are fixated on you, and have nothing better to do than messing with your e-mails and web browsing.

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My thinking is the installer modified the defaults for the touchpad

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Possible, yes. But then the OP would have had to use an alternate mouse/keyboard. OP, was that the case??

I have a bluetooth mouse with a touchpad on he top. I quit using it because it would sometimes sense touches and gestures when I didn't mean to use them, and it would switch tabs, go back to previous pages, all sorts of things. But there was no malware, just a mal-acting mouse. The same thing can happen with touchpads, especially if he sensitivity is set too high.

Or even worse.

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Good link. Maybe can create a new one just for fun..LOL.

No. I've had people on my computer before - I know all too well what it looks like. I only use wired mouse, expensive wired Corsair keyboard, no bluetooth, a desktop - no touchpad; everything wired.


My personal feeling regarding the question I originall posted:

If I am connected to a wired network with the terminal open and no browser open, and someone is sending me malware through my IP address, if nothing else, that the malware 'will' hit my system, but the attacker will not get onto my computer (visually, with control of my system & browser) until I open a browser at another session. So yes, I think the malware will get on the computer with a terminal open and no browser open even if it does not yield remote access immediately (with no browser open).


Just my opinion.

Thanks.

I wonder if anyone would agree...? Truly, it's fine if no one does.

What makes you believe that a terminal or browser has anything to do with it?

Truly, I was told by a top networking security expert that the malware will be ineffective unless I have a browser open; "they can not get on your computer unless the browser is open".

Though his statement leaves a lot for interpretation.

So then why don't you ask this 'top networking security expert' for more information?? Sounds like you know them, and aren't going to listen to anyone here.

Take my advice, I'm not using it. You need to be talking to the top networking security expert, whoever she is, not to strangers on an internet forum.

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There are three main ways one can have some malware.

A newly discovered uefi and older bios issues may contain embedded code.

Any connection to the outside or use of any media such as cd,usb or network that can allow code to execute.

Any of the pre-installed programs and or base system can be infected or have a defect that can allow attack.

Probably someone installing team viewer and having fun with OP at his expense


simple check

or

if using Debian.

Edit: If nada results. Look the slackware security section for ideas of monitoring hacks. Debian. Slackware. It is all good.



Never had to use this. But you are welcome to experiment. https://packages.debian.org/sid/main/bashtop

I get email, computer hacked go here to removed malware, I go here, I got malware.