Weird Clipboard Behaviour

Question

Hi, this is probably a very weird thing to be asking but i can't think of anywhere else to ask it.

I'm using visual c# on windows xp in work. I build basic database stuff for internal use.

I was copy/pasting some code from one event to another a while ago and when i hit cntl+v, what had been a line of code had become a text sentance. I did it a few times and  it kept happening except the text kept changing.

I said to the other people working around me what was happening and one of them asked me to read out the text. When i did he said it was something he was typing. This happened a few times over a few months but i didn't mention it when it happened again.

To cut a long story short i suspect the person in question of interfering with my computer but i just wanted to ask if there is another explanation for it. I don't actually know that much about computers outside of the programming and database work that i do so I'm hoping someone here might have an explanation.

Any chance at all this is some sort of bizzare fluke related to windows or the c# ide?

Cheers.

Answer 1

The only way that one computer could see the clipboard of another is if the remote clipboard functionality was enabled.  It is not by default in Windows and I'm not even sure if it is installed anymore.  It use to come as part of the resource kit if I remember correctly.  In other words it is not a Windows or IDE issue.