I have a serious usage problemthat manifests itself this way: a few minutes (5? 30?) after starting the computer and AICS5, I can select any tool from the toolbar, but the only tool I get on the screen is the Hand tool. As if I were leaning on the space bar (I'm not).
Similarly, yesterday, drawing a rectangle resulted in a hundred rectangles along my path (which I remember is an AI feature somewhere).
Sunday, when I double-clicked a .psd document, PS opened but the document did not open. Nothing solved that but a reboot.
Thirty seconds ago, after typing that last sentence, I popped over to illustrator and it was working fine (or I was able to draw a bunch of random shapes). Now, I'm stuck on the Hand tool again.
I haven't seen evidence of misbehavior in Windows or any other applications.
This seems malicious to me (because it's such a nuisance), but I don't get any results from AVG, Malware Bytes, or MS Security Essentials, or from a couple of rootkit investigators.(They found a couple of trojans in email archives from 5 years ago.)
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This morning I uninstalled CS5 withouth deleting prefs and reinstalled it - no change. Now I'm going to uninstall including prefs and reinstall again (and will post here if that makes a difference).
I will say this: the only strange thing I've done in the last week was download a file using an installer from download.com. I though Cnet was a trustworthy source, but after installing this FLAC converter, I found that they'd installed toolbars in all my browsers and in fact in my system. I'm wondering if that was also a vehicle for whatever this is - or if I caused some sort of harm in the process of uninstalling that.