Excel Spooky

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Rachiano

Hi,
On some of the pc's in our environment a strange thing happens with MS Excel:
If we open excel and leave the pc idle for some time, we see that excel
types some random text by itself. Actually it not only happens with Excel,
also with outlook. We were in a converence room with the PC started and at
the Login to the network dialogue box. We suddenly saw some text being typed
in the username box without anyone touching the keyboard. We know that
someone was bussy with stuff that was being typed in the box and called that
person. Indeed that person was typing the appearing text in an email message.
This is really strange and risky. Especially if it's confidential information.
Has this happened to anyone out there? or is there someone that can help us?

p.s. Office is already updated with SP2
 
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Rachiano

I appreciate your response.
We are running trend micro officescan and we have the latest definitions.
A scan gives as the result that no harmfull code has been found. So
according to officescan the machines are clean of virusses, worms, etc.
Any other suggestion?

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Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.
msn:[email protected]
 
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Stephan Laska

We are running trend micro officescan and we have the latest definitions.
A scan gives as the result that no harmfull code has been found. So
according to officescan the machines are clean of virusses, worms, etc.
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Trend is pretty good, as is the others, but they are far from being
a 100% guarentee of being "clean".
Any other suggestion?
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many.
1) a hacker is into your system, maybe using it as a spam zombie,
2) someone installed key-logging software that isn't working right.
3) assuming your version of office is server based, your server is
corrupt in some way, echoing data to the wrong pc
4) something like "go-to-my-pc" is running on the machines


I think the key to finding out what's going on is identifying
exactly how this works.. ie: does typing on one pc only show
on some other, or on all the other affected machines.
doing a control alt delete and seeing what is running might be helpfull too.
you might find something like a net meeting software is running on the
affected machines.
 
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bxb7668

Stephan Laska said:
Trend is pretty good, as is the others, but they are far from being
a 100% guarentee of being "clean".


many.
1) a hacker is into your system, maybe using it as a spam zombie,
2) someone installed key-logging software that isn't working right.
3) assuming your version of office is server based, your server is
corrupt in some way, echoing data to the wrong pc
4) something like "go-to-my-pc" is running on the machines


I think the key to finding out what's going on is identifying
exactly how this works.. ie: does typing on one pc only show
on some other, or on all the other affected machines.
doing a control alt delete and seeing what is running might be
helpfull too.
you might find something like a net meeting software is running on
the
affected machines.
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Two other possibilities:
1) Does the PC have a wireless keyboard? I've seen cases where
multiple PCs have the same brand and model of wireless keyboard where
typing on one causes text to display on more than one PC.

2) Does the PC have voice recognition software on it? It could be that
it is picking up conversations in the room and trying to type them in.

Brian
 
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Rachiano

Thank you all guys.
We just found out that all the users with the problem have wireless keyboards.
So you that gave me that hint, THANKS A LOT MAN!!!.
Let's keep up the good job.

Thanks Again.
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Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.
msn:[email protected]
 
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Echo S

Thanks for following up with what the cause was. I bet that ends up helping
someone in future!
 
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bxb7668

You're welcome. We aim to please.

Brian

Rachiano said:
Thank you all guys.
We just found out that all the users with the problem have wireless
keyboards.
So you that gave me that hint, THANKS A LOT MAN!!!.
Let's keep up the good job.

Thanks Again.
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