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Re: Odd typing in MSWord
From: Jeff Garrett <jgarrett () home highvision net>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:06:29 -0500 (EST)
i've seen this before, several times, and thought exactly as you each time, much to my feelings of foolishness, it was a key being pressed or sticking (key or keys) On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Federated Information Security wrote:
I ran across something rather odd today I'm hoping someone might have thoughts on. One of my users had their XP SP1 laptop on the corporate network and was editing a Word document with office 2002. They pasted something in a table, and it looked like someone started typing in their document. It was slow, typical typing speed, and lasted for about 10 minutes (I actually got a chance to see it). The text was nonsense words, like the kind you often see in spam nowadays. The machine's fully patched, up-to-date anti-virus and a personal firewall. Don't see any signs of spyware, nothing in the registry. I checked all the files modified today hoping to find a keylogger or something similar, and the only thing I found was a seemingly encrypted file on the root of c:\ called "comply.ini", which isn't normal for our config, but may not be related. IE was open at the time this happened. I issued a netstat -a command while the typing was going on, but all the connections were legit--domain controller, file & print servers. I checked the running processes and everything seemed pretty typical, although I hit Anyone run across anything similar lately, or have any suggestions? Thanks! sid
Current thread:
- Odd typing in MSWord Federated Information Security (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Jeff Garrett (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Tom Baker (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Randy (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Jay D. Dyson (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Deborah McMahon (Mar 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Felix . Simmons (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Rubin, Benjamin (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Federated Information Security (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (Mar 07)