Hello Allan,
I can't answer those questions with a whole lot of certainty because my wife uses this computer. as soon as she gets a computer given to her she connects her wireless keyboard and mouse. the keyboard works perfectly so far as I can tell. the mouse goes nuts (it travels incredibly fast) from east to west and rather slow in comparison from north to south, it never seems to want to go straight north to south either, but that is ALWAYS the case with her wireless mice regardless of PC or OS. her wireless mice have always behaved in that way.
I have completed a full avast scan which alerted on some password protected pictures (which I have to ask my wife about), but avast did not say they were infected. only that they could not be scanned.
I ran a complete malwarebytes scan last night that found nothing. it didn't even alert on the pictures that avast detected.
the computer does not act like it's infected. other than the exclamation points in device manager and the usual mice issues, it is working good.
I have done regular manintenance such as cleaning, defrag, checkdisk and they have all been performed successfully.
I do intend to do more with this. superantispyware complete scan, eset online scan, and check that java is up to date. anything else that I can think of will also be done.
one more thing that is quite important that needs to be mentioned, that is not good news is a microcode error that pops up with two beeps when the computer starts up. there is a screenshot to go with it:
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/4002/picture004vq.jpg"
0167: no processor bios update found"
this was mentioned by me to the good folks at bleepingcomputer, but we reached a conclusion (based on the fact that there was a huge increase in performance after the cpu's were changed and the bios upgrade carried out) that it was a glitch that didn't have any effect on the computer's performance. basically we determined that the error message was in error.
thanks for the reply, Allan
