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Has this happened to anyone else? ???

Last night, I was sending some emails when words started appearing on the screen that I hadn't typed. I took my hands off the keyboard to see whether they would form sentences, but although the words contained no typos, the sentences did not make sense.

What do you think? Paranormal activity? Hacking? Sleep deprivation??

I have just downloaded adaware and spybot, and have removed 120 objects from my laptop. I hope this does the trick! :-/
No reliance should be placed on the above.

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  • libra10
    libra10 Posts: 19,568 Forumite
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    I wouldn't worry about it Juice, it happens to me all the time!
  • Beninio88
    Beninio88 Posts: 173 Forumite
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    Have you got any voice recognition software installed? I hear that some versions of Word has it. Try muting your microphone from the control panel to see if it still happens.
    Do you have sapisvr.exe running in your task manager?
  • VelvetGlove
    VelvetGlove Posts: 12,008 Forumite
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    Ohh I had this happen to me around a year ago! It really freaked me out , I was talking with my boyfriend at the time (using Skype, a computer - computer software for speech, bit like a free phone call, handy when the bf is in the Netherlands!) well the machine started to type away in the word document I was in.

    I was freaked out & bf couldn't talk to me for laughing so hard, it turned out my speech software had somehow turned on (*innocent look as I don't think I did it*) and was trying to make sense of what it heard from me & through the speakers from the boyfriend.

    Pretty hilarious looking back on it but boy did it give me the willies!
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