Pococurante
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Rev. Peasboro may be on to something. Every as yet unknown number of minutes my PC talks to me. Usually it sounds like a girl's voice singing "da daaa da daaa, da da daaaa" and underlain is what sounds like feedback, almost a modem-like sound but without the waterfall. Sometimes though instead of the girls voice it's vaguely musical but nothing I can reproduce here - and there is still the feedback noise. I'm running AVG Free with the latest updates as we speak. Any of this sound familiar? Have I opened a backdoor somehow?
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schmoo
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I have no idea what's up with your PC, but I had an uncle who swore that his toilet was possessed by aliens, and they talked to him whenever he flushed it. He's dead now.
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Trippy
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Does it still do that after you reboot your machine? It sounds more like some sort of audio/video clip being played through your Web browser than a virus/trojan.
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kaid
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Hehe I had to cast a demon out of my work computer. After about 28 hours of uptime my system would start randomly replacing some fonts with gibberish fonts. I would be looking at a page fine and then the next time I look the fonts are all weird characters. I refresh again and now the part that was weird is fine but other parts are messed up. Eventually after checking everything and even reinstalling the os with no luck I just finally chucked the hard drive and got a new one and I have not had a reoccurance. So I can only assume my old hd was possessed by the devil.
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HaemishM
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How dare that minister blame my Internet pr0n on the dark forces of Satan! Surely the plethora of boobies could only be considered digital mana from heaven.
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Krakrok
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Point your video camera at your CRT and pipe the output into the CRT and you'll see some ghosts alright.
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Pococurante
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Does it still do that after you reboot your machine? It sounds more like some sort of audio/video clip being played through your Web browser than a virus/trojan.
Good thought - I'll give that a shot. Last time I noticed it my browser was open to CNN and hotmail, and those rat bastards have gotten heavily into fat ads. I do often go weeks between rebooting with a lot of heavy dev & game play. |
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Samwise
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Are you sure it's your computer generating the noise and not your speakers? I had a pair of cheap speakers once that picked up nearby radio stations.
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Strazos
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Fear the Backstab!
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Pococurante
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Are you sure it's your computer generating the noise and not your speakers? I had a pair of cheap speakers once that picked up nearby radio stations.
Reasonably certain it is the computer - the sounds are just too consistent. Hasn't been an issue since I rebooted. Weirdness. Curse you شيطان! |
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Sobelius
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It's just Kylie Minogue singing "Can't Get You Outta My Head".
La. La. La.
La-la-la-la-la.
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Chenghiz
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I had this problem last year, and I eventually discovered that it was AIM playing ads over my speakers. At about that time, incidentally, I switch to using Trillian, and later gAIM. Also, I found that if I tried to close AIM or kill the process while the ad was running, my computer would BSOD.
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Pococurante
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I did just install Trillium. And my daughter is constantly sneaking AIM on there when I'm not watching. I need to use an operating system no self-respecting hacker and ad-man gives a shit about.  |
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Murgos
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Does she realize that trillian will allow you to chat through AIM? That you don't actually need to have AIM (and all of it's billions of exploits) installed to use it?
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Pococurante
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Nope...  She's a technophobic teenager except to learn just enough to chat with 35 of her closest friends simultaneously. I think I handle it by forcing her login to a VMWare virtual machine. |
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SurfD
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Are you sure it's your computer generating the noise and not your speakers? I had a pair of cheap speakers once that picked up nearby radio stations.
I had an instance of soemthing similar happen to me, buit it was slightly more creepy, since I somehow managed to have my PC speakers (a 5.1 surround system) tune in to some passing trucker's CB radio with perfect crystal clarity......the freaky part was that the PC and speakers were turned off at the time. I even unlpugged the fuckers and was still somehow picking up this dude's CB radio for a good 2 minutes with absolutely no power going to the speakers! |
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kaid
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I saw that type of trick more than a few times when I was an ISP tech doing house calls. In this one area apparently the new radio station has something REALLY fucked up and people were getting great radio reception in speakers that were not turned on and their phone lines.
Needless to say if you can actually hear the radio playing on your phone it kinda sorta messes up your modem connection just a titch.
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