I have a virus

[nihil]

Hi,

Please check my earlier post, I have just found this which may confirm my suspicions, if it isn't the keyboard:

"Sapisvr.exe is Microsoft's Speech Recognition engine. When enabled, it listens to what's coming in on the microphone, and attempts to interpret what it hears as words, and then enters keystrokes to "type in" those words it heard.

That's nice, in principle, but if always enabled it can cause exactly the odd behavior you describe. You make a noise (just about any noise can cause it to think it's heard a word), and keystrokes get entered. Or ambient noise is enough to cause it to try to recognize speech.

Normally this feature should be disabled, but apparently some PC manufacturers or others enable it by default.

To disable:

* Go to Control Panel
* Click on Regional and Language Options
* Click on the Languages tab
* Click on the Details button
* Click on Speech Recognition
* Click the Remove button"

EDIT:

And if you're wondering why this could be happening if you don't have a microphone, look again. Many laptops in particular have built-in microphones, and I'm lead to believe that some other computers may as well.

Some fancy screens have a built in mike and speakers as well

[Lightning_Girl]

Here is something that it just typed a few moments ago in Microsoft word while I was offline.......

I mean a new home from the time to two, and the a file and then I am I I Dan Dan La well in all of the the whole of

Did I mention I don't have a speaker phone or anything like that connected to the computer.

[Lightning_Girl]

To disable:

* Go to Control Panel
* Click on Regional and Language Options
* Click on the Languages tab
* Click on the Details button
* Click on Speech Recognition
* Click the Remove button"

Thankyou I went ahead and did that!

Ya'll may be right it looks like this pc has a built in microphone at the top.

Do u know for sure if a hp pavilon mx70 monitor has one or not! Cause i'm only guessin at the momment?

[gore]

Yes, above the little HP icon on the monitor is a Mic built in.

[Lightning_Girl]

Originally posted here by gore
Yes, above the little HP icon on the monitor is a Mic built in.

Thankyou!

[gore]

I have that same one sitting here on my desk. Even though right now my Play list of Sepultura and Samhain has made it shake.

NP: Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots - Demo

Wait, it just went to another song:

Samhain - All Murder All Guts All Fun, heh.

[Lightning_Girl]

If u say so. since i disabled that sapisvir.exe my pc hasn't typed by its self so i'm really happy. No virus. No gettin killed by parents & having to by an $800 pc.

Anyways, thankyou to every1 that did try to help because it totally paid off. and those are my dearly respects!

[Spyrochaete]

Originally posted here by Lightning_Girl
I use Norton System Works 2005 & Norton Personal Firewall 2005

Norton AntiVirus is the MS Internet Explorer of virus scanners. I don't think it can be trusted at all anymore. There are many, many vulnerabilities that have been exploited by several viruses.

I switched from AVG to Avast and I see no reason to use anything else. It's a miracle worker.

Do yourself a favour and get one of these (or any other reputable) free virus scanners and test your system. A second opinion will very valuable.

[gore]

So is Spam blocking software. If I had that I wouldn't have been able to read your message.

[nihil]

Thanks for the feedback

I get very annoyed by posts that do not let me know what actually worked

EDIT: Gore old chap, you really must learn this nursery rhyme:

" It's no good standing on the seat,
Spyrochaetes can jump six feet"

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