OK, so I open my assignment in MS Word to put some finishing touches to the tute presentation I have to do tomorrow, and, bugger-me, everytime I try to type in some changes, it types in …‘get screwed hippie’ and other equally objectionable things. I don’t think my tutor would appreciate these suggestions in my final report!!
What is it, and how can I get rid of it? VERY QUICKLY.
PS I’ve never ‘had’ a virus before, having being blessed with remarkable immunity to both viruses (virii??) and junk mail. I haven’t added anything or opened any strange email attachments either.
It doesn’t sound like a virus. Are you the only one that has access to this computer? I think someone has placed a little “bug” on your puter. CAD and check and see what programs are running. Close those you don’t recognize and see if it stops. Just don’t close explorer or your computer will shut down.
Thanks for the advice Reeder, but unfortunately it didn’t work. I closed all of the programs one at a time but the nasty little words still pop up (‘the’ sets off ‘screw you hippie’ and other pronouns set off different put-downs!) Oh, and it’s ONLY in MS Word.
I also ran a HouseCall virus scan/check which congratulated me on NOT having any viruses.
[slaps self around head]Gee, it would be nice if you could finish your sentences kambuckta [/slap around head]
Sorry about that Reeder.
To continue…yes, the puter is also used by my kids, but I don’t think they’re savvy enough to be ‘bugging’ any programs. However, I COULD be wrong, but I’ll have to wait until they return from school today to beat a confession out of them.
I’ll just have to transfer what I’ve already written into Wordpad (which isn’t affected), finish it there, then re-transfer it back into MS Word afterwards.
If this is only occurring in MS Word, I would check the list under the Tools menu in “Auto-Correct.”
An old joke is to type in a common word and a phrase of your choice to Auto-correct it as. Simply select the phrase in the list and click ‘delete’ to correct this.
If that’s not the problem here, I apologize for an unhelpful post.
One of my darling children came home early, and guessed that his little brother (who I am going to KILL when HE gets home) had buggered around with the ‘Auto Correct’ thingy.
So, yes, whenever I typed ‘The’, ‘screw you hippie’ came up, full-stops brought a ‘Goddamn Woman’, comma’s equalled, ‘I think you, um, smell like poo’ and I even discovered that my own name would elicit a ‘Damn You Mum!!’. (I hadn’t typed my name up until that point…had I done so, i might have been a bit more suspicious of my offspring!)
I’d
on my face.