Excel Spooky

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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Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.

Scan all your machines with an up-to-date antivirus application.

"Rachiano" wrote in message
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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

--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.

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?

--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.





"Test Man" wrote:

Scan all your machines with an up-to-date antivirus application.

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...
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

--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

Is your microphone on?

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http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
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"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
...

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

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

Hi Mary,
Why do you ask if my microphone is on?
Is there a known issue with that?
Please, let me know.

Thanks.
--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.





"Mary Sauer" wrote:

Is your microphone on?

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
...

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

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.
--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.





"bxb7668" wrote:

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
...

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

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

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

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PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com


"Rachiano" wrote in message
...
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.
--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.





"bxb7668" wrote:

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
...

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

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

You're welcome. We aim to please.

Brian

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...
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.
--
Regards,
Rachiano Haselhoef.





"bxb7668" wrote:

"Stephan Laska" Ask & maybe I'll Tell wrote in message
...

"Rachiano" wrote in message
...

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.

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

Any other suggestion?

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.

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