Apparently these drivers were controlling my mouse and keyboard in place of the drivers I've had on my PC for years. The item completely dissappeared, so now there are only two items left. so I clicked on disable for the first item, as you figured out, I disabled my mouse. But I was locked out of researching, and I figured it would be reversible. I ALWAYS research things before changing them. I know better than to touch things when I don't know what they are. Desperate people do dumb things sometimes. I figured I'd try to see if disabling this unknown "thing" would free up my browsers to work again. The sub-items below it had an option to "disable".
Obviously I was wrong, now that I can do a search it seems that this is a genuine device driver, although I don't know how it got onto my PC, and why. So I became suspicious that this was possibly part of the virus that has taken over my PC. My keyboard also showed up with proper drivers as working. My mouse device still showed my correct mouse with drivers as working. It has an icon that I NEVER saw before, so it got my attention right away. To the best of my memory, it was some sort of "USB Human interface device", with 3 sub items. I saw a device that I've never seen before, and I have not installed any hardware in a long time. One of the places I looked at for some reason was the device manager. I should have done nothing, and came for malware help at the time.
I was foolishly looking around my pc, to see if there's any obvious nefarious program that doesn't belong there. Please bear with me, as I try to remember what I did that disabled my mouse. I am not typing from my own pc, because my browsers do not work despite the fact that my pc says my connection is working.
I will deal with that in the appropriate forum. I am using windows xp sp3, and finally got a virus.
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