Posted on 08/05/2004 2:14:23 PM PDT by Robe
Today a fellow teacher reported to me that her computer plays music all on it's own, without command or any program running. There is no cd in the cd-rom. I had her run the task wizard while the music was playing and nothing was running (that wasn't suppose to like systray, etc) Has anyone out there ever experienced a virus or hidden pgm that would cause this. I gotta take a look at it tomorrow.. it this possible our is she out there in the ozone?w teacher reported to me that her computer plays music all on it's own, without command or any program running. There is no cd in the cd-rom. I had her run the task wisard while the music was playing and nothing wqas running (that wasn't suppose to like systray, etc) Has anyone out there ever experinced a virus or hidden pgm that would cause this. I gotta take a look at it tomorrow.. it this possible our is she out there in the ozone?
Check the radio next to the computer?
Is the internet being accessed ?
If she was hearing 'Stairway to Heaven', I'd just let it be.
She needs to clean out all the Beebers on the stune drive.
HE HE HE HE '
I think I'll tell her that in the morning and then go get a cup of coffee
Solution - Go into the control panel. Select Sounds (might say multimedia depending on their version of windows) Turn off all sound options for windows events..
Specifically, did she recognize the tune and could she search the internet for a virus reference about it? Is it a song she already had on her computer?
Has she run anything like Spybot Search & Destroy or and antivirus program to see if something bad is running?
Your close to what I ahve bee thinking... some little teenie booper got creative whilst she was elsewhere
A young beeber?
My speakers will sometimes pick up the cb of passing trucks.
Is it music, instruments & voice, or is it like a midi? Or maybe merely a variety of beeps and whistles and possibly sizzles as her computer is in the process of melting down that she's discerning as music?
Happy to help! In all seriousness, I am an IT guy, and I shouldn't just toss silly stuff out there to Freepers in need. If her computer is actually playing music continually, without promting, and no music files, she may ahve one of many viruses that play music (no joke). Scan that puppy for beebers. I mean viruses.
She didn't say what tune was playing, and no nothing was running at all. Now bear in mind that this lady had saved every docoment she ever created last yeat to her desktop... man stuff was 6 layers thick. Needless to say I was ..ah hem.. unable to save that stuff for her when we installed her ne computer..
I'm the unoffical IT guy at the school.. the lady that IS the IT, well to her everything is a virus or the harddrive is bad...
This teacher in question had every document she created last year saved to her desktop....needless to say that when we installed her new computer.. I was ''Ah..hem...unable to save ...she is questionable at best....I'll search the net for virus playing viruses... we have a antivirus pgm that runns at start up ..but it could be getting by
thanks
90 percent chance that a German boy is behind this.
Many years ago, I had a similar problem. It turned out that the BIOS was responding to a CPU overheating problem by playing very tinny music as the error message. If my memory serves, it was Fur Elise that was playing.
So if it's tinny, bad music it could very well be the BIOS trying to tell you about a hardware problem. This is particularly likely if the computer is old and not too powerful. Most old computers would be rendered entirely incapable of operating with virii or spyware, so that's not nearly as likely if you have a "historic" system.
Hope that gives you an interesting place to look.
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In windows run "msconfig.exe" and see what is being loaded at startup.
If there is an "autoexec.bat" or "config.sys" look there as well.
Anything loaded at the DOS level boot (assuming its Win95 or Win98) won't show on the task list. Task list programs can be hidden as well...
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