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    SirWernich
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    this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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      this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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      You can be glad it wasn't my clipboard... :rolleyes: And so can I :~

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        this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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        Mark_Wallace
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        That's what you get for buying second-hand computers. From the NSA.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          That's what you get for buying second-hand computers. From the NSA.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          SirWernich
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          also, different computers. and i'm in south africa. our internet is too crap for the nsa to do surveillance without constant buffering, so i believe they don't care about us.

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            That's what you get for buying second-hand computers. From the NSA.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            SirWernich
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            also, different computers. and i'm in south africa. our internet is too crappy for the nsa to do surveillance without constant buffering, so i believe they don't care about us.

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              That's what you get for buying second-hand computers. From the NSA.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              megaadam
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              Or from me!

              ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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                this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                Rage
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                This is seriously disturbing.

                Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                  this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                  Jacquers
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                  Teamviewer / Remote Desktop or similar software can have that effect.

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                    Teamviewer / Remote Desktop or similar software can have that effect.

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                    Nelek
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                    Jacquers wrote:

                    Remote Desktop

                    We have a remote server where we work. It is so often... and so annoying... and even worst... not the only side effect. Paste won't work (you close the Rem.Desk... it works), the "Alt Gr" won't work (you close the Rem.Desk... it works), Monitor flickering if someone plays with the resolution on server (you close the Rem.Desk... it works)... Sad is... as we get used to it, we don't care anymore. And it might be a security / privacy breach (I have once pasted the content of an "eyes only" Email of one local worker where the server is into one document I was editing in my laptop)

                    M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                      this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                      Nelek
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                      SirWernich wrote:

                      so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

                      I would like it were or the 2nd or the 3rd... but pity is... the 1st one. See my other comment above this

                      M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                        this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                        The clipboard is something local. If there's something on your clipboard, then someone used your computer.

                        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                          The clipboard is something local. If there's something on your clipboard, then someone used your computer.

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                          VNC and TeamViewer can interact with the clipboard (luckily). In fact you can copy text from your pc and paste it on the remoted one and viceversa, and I'm pretty sure that is managed as clipboard content (instead of emulated by sending keys).

                          DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                            VNC and TeamViewer can interact with the clipboard (luckily). In fact you can copy text from your pc and paste it on the remoted one and viceversa, and I'm pretty sure that is managed as clipboard content (instead of emulated by sending keys).

                            DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                            Lost User
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                            Any local app has access to the clipboard, and you can access it even with VB6. I'd be guessing more in the direction of badly written malware than a "bug" in Windows where it accidentally puts the content on the clipboard of the active session of the logged in user on another machine.

                            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                              this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                              Munchies_Matt
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                              virus? apps can put stuff on the clipoard, so you might have somethign fishy running.

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                                Any local app has access to the clipboard, and you can access it even with VB6. I'd be guessing more in the direction of badly written malware than a "bug" in Windows where it accidentally puts the content on the clipboard of the active session of the logged in user on another machine.

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                                Nelek
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                                Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                                I'd be guessing more in the direction of badly written malware than a "bug" in Windows where it accidentally puts the content on the clipboard of the active session of the logged in user on another machine.

                                Well I can confirm the other variation. First day of new formated amd installed laptop (by corporation IT), issue was still there. If it is malware... then it affects a lot of computers. Besides... it is a malware that only is active while remote Desktop is active. You close the window (not even needed to log off) and everything works fine again

                                M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                  this is most weird. it's now the second time this has happened to me, but it happened from the other side now. the first time was 4 or 5 years ago where i copied some text to paste it somewhere and my manager did a copy and paste on his laptop, but he pasted my text. both of us windows 7 and on a work domain. now, 5 minutes ago, the same thing happened to me again. i took a screenshot of some code in visual studio, pasted it in mspaint, dragged a block around a function and copied that to paste in an email. when i ctrl-v'd in the new email, it pasted a shortened youtube like to a "nissan 200sx" video (i have very little interest in watching anything other than food videos on youtube). this time, i'm on windows10 and not on the work domain (ain't nobody got time fo' that!). i also have no idea who this link came from and how it infiltrated my clipboard. so far my leading theories are: - crazy-ass windows - is aliens - barry allen ran in, looked for a youtube video, copied the link, emailed it off and forgot to copy my previous item before he left

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                                  Chris Maunder
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                                  You realise this will happen more and more once we get to quantum computing

                                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                                    Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                                    I'd be guessing more in the direction of badly written malware than a "bug" in Windows where it accidentally puts the content on the clipboard of the active session of the logged in user on another machine.

                                    Well I can confirm the other variation. First day of new formated amd installed laptop (by corporation IT), issue was still there. If it is malware... then it affects a lot of computers. Besides... it is a malware that only is active while remote Desktop is active. You close the window (not even needed to log off) and everything works fine again

                                    M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                    Nelek wrote:

                                    Besides... it is a malware that only is active while remote Desktop is active. You close the window (not even needed to log off) and everything works fine again

                                    ..and there you localized it to a local application. Might not be malicious, could just as well be a simple bug. ..but Windows itself? Little chance that the OS would be that confused :)

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                                      Nelek wrote:

                                      Besides... it is a malware that only is active while remote Desktop is active. You close the window (not even needed to log off) and everything works fine again

                                      ..and there you localized it to a local application. Might not be malicious, could just as well be a simple bug. ..but Windows itself? Little chance that the OS would be that confused :)

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                                      Nelek
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                                      Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                                      and there you localized it to a local application.

                                      Personal experience, always the same. Happening sporadically depending on what we (team) are doing in the remote desktop

                                      Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                                      Might not be malicious, could just as well be a simple bug.

                                      That was my point from the very beggining. You were the one speaking about malware ;P ;P

                                      Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                                      but Windows itself? Little chance that the OS would be that confused

                                      Have you been living in outer space the last couple of years? I would not be surprised if it get worst.

                                      M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                        You realise this will happen more and more once we get to quantum computing

                                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                                        Nish Nishant
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                                        His manager has both a key logger and a clipboard capturing tool installed on his machine - and is probably pretending to be surprised so OP won't know he's being monitored. :-D

                                        Regards, Nish


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                                          You realise this will happen more and more once we get to quantum computing

                                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          quantum computing

                                          Is this when your computer disappears when you try to look at it ?

                                          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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