Possible Security Breach In Word 2003 Speech Tool

[RJA Sr]

I run WindowsXP Home SP2, have Office 2003, use ZoneAlarm firewall, Norton
anti-virus, and run SpyBot one month and AdAware the next month. When I am
using Word 2003, and activate the "text-to-speech" tool, it must somehow open
up my computer to the outside world. This morning, while the "speech" tool
was active, someone actually started to add text to my document, adding in
whole sentences and changing my text. When I closed the "speech" tool, it
stopped. I then deleted the "bogus" text from my document. It has happened
before when the "speech" tool was active but I more or less dismissed it as
some weird happening that didn't mean all that much. This mornings
experience really got my attention.

Who do I need to share this info with? Your help would be deeply appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Can you give examples of the text that was added?

 

[RJA Sr]

Hi Suzanne

In the top center of my document, the lines split and in popped very small
text. Must have been 5 or 6 lines. It read like a garbled conversation.
The word "hell" was used a lot. At the bottom of my document, in popped
"sales" and "sales tools", which was very different than what the document
was all about.

Hope this helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's possible your microphone is too sensitive and is picking up ambient
noise. Some users have reported getting "noise" from their modem. You might
also check on RF interference.

 

[RJA Sr]

I don't understand how the microphone is typing text into my document. What
am I not getting?

 

[SC]

might be picking up tv or radio or music you have on when you were working?

I don't understand how the microphone is typing text into my document. What
am I not getting?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have Speech Recognition enabled?