Skipping Cursor

My mouse cursor is skipping a lot and it's very annoying. It also jumps down up a line or down to the next one without me touching anything. After reading other help forums I tried fiddling with the mouse settings, but I think this may be a malware or virus problem.

I have just gone through an eradication of the 'qbyrd' malware that came from the ilivid software I had downloaded. This was my situation a few days ago: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/Help-with-removing-Google-Redirect-qbyrd-malware-with-norton/td-p/576958

Could it have something to do with that?

I have an hp laptop, and I'm experiencing this cursor problem in internet explorer, microsoft word, and aol email.