Re: Odd typing in MSWord

[Jeff Garrett <jgarrett () home highvision net>]

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