Wireless crosstalk causing text to appear in MS Word Doc...

Have a Dell Lat 600 laptop with built in 11b wireless access. The
Laptop was connected to the LAN. The wireless was not connected to any
access point, but was not disabled either. With MS Word open, I was
typing a doc and then text started appear in the word doc. I disabled
the wireless and it stopped. Anybody seen anything like this? Is this
cross-talk? is this an attack? is this a bug? Thanks in advance for
any thoughts, ideas...

Eric

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Have a Dell Lat 600 laptop with built in 11b wireless access. The
> Laptop was connected to the LAN. The wireless was not connected to any
> access point, but was not disabled either. With MS Word open, I was
> typing a doc and then text started appear in the word doc. I disabled
> the wireless and it stopped. Anybody seen anything like this? Is this
> cross-talk? is this an attack? is this a bug? Thanks in advance for
> any thoughts, ideas...
>
> Eric
>

Heh-heh...
Yes, I HAVE seen this behavior and it drove me absolutely crazy trying
to figure out what was going on. It seems that certain releases of of MS
Office install with speech recognition turned on by default. What you're
seeing is Word trying to use your PC's microphone to "take dictation".

If the text is "real words" not just garbage then it's probably the speech
recognition alright. It might be possible for an unused sound input to pick
up the garbage from the WLAN and then the speech recognition S/W turns it
into real words. Neat eh?


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"Neb Revod" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > Have a Dell Lat 600 laptop with built in 11b wireless access. The
> > Laptop was connected to the LAN. The wireless was not connected to any
> > access point, but was not disabled either. With MS Word open, I was
> > typing a doc and then text started appear in the word doc. I disabled
> > the wireless and it stopped. Anybody seen anything like this? Is this
> > cross-talk? is this an attack? is this a bug? Thanks in advance for
> > any thoughts, ideas...
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
> Heh-heh...
> Yes, I HAVE seen this behavior and it drove me absolutely crazy trying
> to figure out what was going on. It seems that certain releases of of MS
> Office install with speech recognition turned on by default. What you're
> seeing is Word trying to use your PC's microphone to "take dictation".

In article <FdIab.28530$(E-Mail Removed)>,
CWatters <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>If the text is "real words" not just garbage then it's probably the speech
>recognition alright.

And if the words say : "WHAT THE %&*^) IS WRONG WITH THIS $%#@# COMPUTER!!!"
you -know- it's the speech recognition picking up your microphone :-)


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Dun sapose your next door nabour has a weird sence of humor and was
controling your computer over your wifi connection with a trojan. ^_^

"Jim Buzbee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <FdIab.28530$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> CWatters <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >If the text is "real words" not just garbage then it's probably the
speech
> >recognition alright.
>
> And if the words say : "WHAT THE %&*^) IS WRONG WITH THIS $%#@#
COMPUTER!!!"
> you -know- it's the speech recognition picking up your microphone :-)
>
>
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> Jim Buzbee "I was gratified to be able to
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> > > is this an attack?


YES YES YES