Strange things have started to happen on my laptop. As I am writing this email, the following words appear without me touching the keyboard: "is to the open is in the U. A. N. on a way you". Any idea what is happening please and how I can stop it? a a day, they may have a man may man a man may I may I say how a man There it goes again. Do I have a virus or have I been hacked? Mark Shardlow
My best guess (which turned out to be correct) is that you have the Windows speech recognition module running. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the task list, look for Sapisvr.exe under Processes and terminate it if you find it. This is sometimes loaded on notebook PCs that have built-in microphones. Microsoft has a long Knowledge Base article, "How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP", which you can find by searching for 306537. Scroll down about half way and you will find the removal instructions in a section that starts "How to remove speech recognition".
