Re: Odd typing in MSWord
From: Randy (rho_at_clunet.edu)
Date: 03/04/05
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:48:04 -0800 (PST) To: Federated Information Security <FederatedInformationSecurity@federatedinv.com>
Could it be possible that the laptop was docked and using a wireless
keyboard?
--Randy
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
>
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