Mysterious Virus Playing Music on My PC!
Pink Sparkle Girl
music started playing quietly out of my speakers. I isn't any of my own
music and there was no way of stopping it so had to let it play out. It only
seems to do it once but who knows what else may be going on?
How do I delete it and make sure it doesn't do it again? Is this some sort
of weird virus?
I shall run some virus and spyware programmes again but maybe someone out
there know something about it.
Thanks!
David H. Lipman
No, it isn't a 'virus' !
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Brian A.
news:%23CfUmQG...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
It may be someone is pulling a prank on you.
Check and make sure no disk is in a drive.
Check Start button > Programs > Startup folder to see if there's anything in it that
shouldn't be.
Click Start > Run, type in: msconfig and press Enter or click Ok.
Click the Startup tab and see if there's anything in there that shouldn't be.
If you aren't sure of what would or shouldn't be in msconfig startup, post the
contents in a response to this thread for us to see.
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Mark L. Ferguson
are filters(capacitors) you can put on the speaker cable to prevent this. I
would imagine you could just 'shield it out' with some grounded wire wrapped
around the speaker cable.
To determine if my guess is right, simply mute the speaker from the
notification icon, and if it does not stop, that's it.
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nesredep egrob
wrote:
Now it had had been a radio or your HiFi, you would have gone for the volume
control and turned it down - if that did not work you would have had more
information for people sush as I who spent working life on electronic repairs.
There is a volume control on your computer - try it
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
Pink Sparkle Girl
was coming from elsewhere as it is far quieter than everything else, but it
would seem that it is indeed coming from somewhere on my PC!
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Pink Sparkle Girl
not own and I cannot stop from playing or find out where it is stored.
Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message
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Pink Sparkle Girl
pull a prank on myself! I checked the drives anyway and there isn't anything
in my start-up folder. I ran Norton and Ad-Aware - neither found anything.
I'm still waiting to see if the music starts up again today as My PC has
almost been on 30 mins now!
"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message
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Pink Sparkle Girl
iexplore.exe. It seems to be connecting on its own and running in the
background. How do I find and delete the culprit?
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Mark L. Ferguson
normal add ons in tools menu, "Manage add ons")
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"Pink Sparkle Girl" <mydea...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Swifty
> Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
I think that Process Explorer (which you can download from Microsoft) is
the answer to part of your problem. You can use it in two ways:
1. You can prove that it is iexplore.exe that is playing the music by
locating it in the "Process" list, and suspending it. Once you hit the
right process, suspending it will stop the music. This only proves what
is playing it, but it is conclusive.
2. Once you've found the process (1. Above) you can then use the
process tree to find what started iexplore.exe (hopefully). This might
find the culprit.
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What do you mean by "process tree"?
C.
nesredep egrob
wrote:
>Hi, the point is that my PC is automatically playing a music file which I do
>not own and I cannot stop from playing or find out where it is stored.
>Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
Not a question about muting the speakers - but simply to turn the VC down - that
would tell me where the sound originates and I might be able to do soomething
for you, muting the speakers will take the music away - but is the volume
control capable of adjusting the level of the music? bearing in mind that the VC
does not mute the speakers - a mute is a single control that is either allowing
sound or not
Swifty
Swifty
> What do you mean by "process tree"?
If you click the "Process" column in Process Explorer (which you can
download from Microsoft) you eventually come to a list of the processes
running in your PC. Each process is listed under the one which started,
in what is known as a "Tree display". Using this, you should be able to
find what started the process that is playing your music. That is your
"culprit".
Nguyen@discussions.microsoft.com Quang Nguyen
As my PC got same exactly problem as "Pink Sparkle Girl"'s one. All my
comapny's PC , that connect LAN is effected too. PC play music itself every
30 munites once connect to internet. Even I could not run regedit -> pc
automatic log off. I'm sure that got virus. any way to solve it, thanks,
Quang
David H. Lipman
| Hi Brian A.
| As my PC got same exactly problem as "Pink Sparkle Girl"'s one. All my
| comapny's PC , that connect LAN is effected too. PC play music itself every
| 30 munites once connect to internet. Even I could not run regedit -> pc
| automatic log off. I'm sure that got virus. any way to solve it, thanks,
| Quang
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
English:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/09/scan-your-computer-with-multiple-anti-virus-for-free/
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
* * * Please report back your results * * *
Quang Nguyen
David H. Lipman
| That a virus name Mixa_I.exe
| "Swifty" wrote:
|
Did you run the Multi AV Scanning Tool I suggested ?
If so please reply with an except of the log file that found malware in "Mixa_I.exe".
The FILE name may be Mixa_I.exe.
That is not a virus name.
CouldBeAnyone
I'm having the problem described here, too. Did this thread ever find a
resolution?
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"CouldBeAnyone" <CouldBeAny...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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: I'm having the problem described here, too. Did this thread ever find a
:
Daave
news:CouldBeAny...@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> a
> resolution?
Read the thread:
Did it?
Also, it is not good form to reply to a post made over one year ago!
Feel free to start a brand spanking new thread -- *your own* thread. You
will get *much* better results.
CouldBeAnyone
'Tom [Pepper Wrote:
> Willett;4298489']If this thread found a resolution, wouldn't it be part
> of the thread?
Not necessarily. The OP might have resolved her/his problem using some
of the advice presented here and never replied with that information.
The discussion might have continued in some other form.
Also, the last post on this thread was only a couple months ago.
CouldBeAnyone
For the benefit of future Googlers: I ended up solving this by starting
with Process Explorer as recommended by "Swifty" earlier in this thread,
which revealed that IE was being launched by explorer.exe. Some
research on the website of the makers of Process Explorer
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx) helped me
realize that meant I had what's called a "rootkit." (Specifically,
"TDSS.") I used "Rootkit Revealer" from sysinternals to confirm, and
ended up using "Root Repeal" from http://rootrepeal.googlepages.com/ to
get rid of it.
Good luck!
AcTePuKc
I have the same problem, but it's not playing any music or so. I end
task it every 5-10 minutes but it continue to apear. Antivirus dont
detect it ... early i install Tune Up, and then Iexplore 8.0 then the
things start.
I will post some info from my computer this i can spair to see what's
going on. I realy cannot remove it. Dont know how or just will reinstall
windows :)
If someone can make it widout reinstall please to tell US.
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Bast
I have the same problem. Music or advertisements will start playing from
my speakers. I have located it in the task manager as the iexplorer.exe
task. The only way to get it to stop is to terminate the process
(sometimes it is the wrong process and I end up closing IE). I have
researched online and many other individuals are having the same
problem. I have read multiple solutions (some good & some not so good).
Currently, I am removing IE and using Firefox until a permanent solution
is provided....Yes it is frustrating, but it works for the mean time.
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Jose
Well, gee whiz.
Some WWW sites you go to play music as soon as their page finishes
loading. The playing of music is built into their page by design.
It is not a virus, nor is it mysterious, and there is nothing wrong.
However it is annoying if you don't like it or are not expecting it.
It can also be embarrassing if someone else hears the music as you
scramble to make it stop.
Sometimes a WWW page will place a mute icon in the page or have an
option to click for no music - kind of like the Skip Intro option you
see sometimes.
Some browsers may let you enable or disable this feature. I don't
know why Firefox doesn't do it and IE does for you but there must be a
logical explanation.
I am guessing that it is only some WWW pages that have this "problem"?
Why don't y'all give some specific examples of these web pages that
are playing the music and someone else can check them out? I don't
see any examples, so please provide a few.
Here is a NSFW (not suitable for work) example for a club advertised
in the local news WWW page:
http://www.mysistersroom.com/site/index.html
Then you will know if there is something about your computer or if it
is something about that WWW page.
Shenan Stanley
> I have the same problem, but it's not playing any music or so. I end
> task it every 5-10 minutes but it continue to apear. Antivirus dont
> detect it ... early i install Tune Up, and then Iexplore 8.0 then
> the things start.
> I will post some info from my computer this i can spair to see
> what's going on. I realy cannot remove it. Dont know how or just
> will reinstall windows :)
> If someone can make it widout reinstall please to tell US.
Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan (separately) with the
following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to use for this):
SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
MalwareBytes
http://www.malwarebytes.com/
After performing a full scan with one and then the other and removing
whatever they both find completely, you may uninstall these products,
if you wish.
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Shenan Stanley
> I am having the same problem with music or what seems to be youtube
> video playing through my speakers. If people are having the same
> problem as I am having I do not believe it is what you are
> describing above.
>
> I currently do not use IE, so when my first encounter of
> music/sounds came from my speakers I closed my Google Chrome
> bowser. After closing ALL applications running from my desktop the
> sounds did not go away.
>
> If you go to task manager however you can see iexplorer.exe running
> in the background and when you close the task the music/sounds
> stop. In my case the application starts back up every 10-15 min
> and the music/sounds continue until I go back to task manager to
> close the application.
>
> So I couldn't tell you what web sites the music/sounds are coming
> from and even if I could figure it out it wouldn't solve the
> problem of iexplorer.exe opening up secretly and running in the
> background undetected.
aakka098
Jose;4466555 Wrote:
I am having the same problem with music or what seems to be youtube
video playing through my speakers. If people are having the same
problem as I am having I do not believe it is what you are describing
above.
I currently do not use IE, so when my first encounter of music/sounds
came from my speakers I closed my Google Chrome bowser. After closing
ALL applications running from my desktop the sounds did not go away.
If you go to task manager however you can see iexplorer.exe running in
the background and when you close the task the music/sounds stop. In my
case the application starts back up every 10-15 min and the music/sounds
continue until I go back to task manager to close the application.
So I couldn't tell you what web sites the music/sounds are coming from
and even if I could figure it out it wouldn't solve the problem of
iexplorer.exe opening up secretly and running in the background
undetected.
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Jose
Can you figure out how to post a URL that demonstrates your problem?
Do some sites work okay or is it all sites?
A similar problem was posted a while back and fixed by a malware scan.
When you ran the suggested multiple times malware removal programs
what happened, or have you chosen not run them?
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these three free
malware detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/
AVG (AVG): http://free.avg.com/
Here is another interesting article.
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B261186&x=11&y=11
But I think that one is beeps playing over the PC speaker (but still
amusing).
mizer89
I had the same thing. After searching or information i've to find that
somehow a file opens but cant see it.The music turns on every ten
minutes and can't see what program plays it. I finally found it on task
manager nd its a .tmp file that starts with numbers
example(755532.tmp). So i end process but it later somehow comes back
on. Problem started after my computer starting getting bluescreen and
correcting problem by uninstalling IE8. Using Google chrome now.
Trieing to reinstall IE8... no success.
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mas_leo333
i had the same issue but found the files in the folder below.
C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Temp\
The files seem to be about 5 or 6 exe files named a to F. I use vista
so the path may be different for others.
its possible the creator of the virus might have put something more
dangerous along with this easy found virus.
Anyway delete those files and empty bin. no more music. thank you.
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mordidas
same thing happened to me today... i was using this program videora to
convert videos for ur ipod.. then out of nowhere bunch of different
sounds started to come out of my speakers... so i turned off my modem
then i turned it on again.. and music started to play again.. so i just
turn off my pc..
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Shenan Stanley
> same thing happened to me today... i was using this program videora
> to convert videos for ur ipod.. then out of nowhere bunch of
> different sounds started to come out of my speakers... so i turned
> off my modem then i turned it on again.. and music started to play
> again.. so i just turn off my pc..
techarena - what a pain. Nothing quoted from the original posting means
those of us (likely the majority) reading your response see only the above.
An incomplete non-referenced posting that seems to have come from no-where.
Not only that - the synchronization between the newsgroups and techarena
obviously broke down at some point.
The full conversation, archived indefinitely via Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_frm/thread/5ddfd5326ea006f1/
The TechArena version:
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/924510.htm
Notice the large discrepency in the number of posts...
16-17 at TechArena vs. the actual 34-35 made so far...
And it is an *old* posting. ;-)
David H. Lipman
From: "mordidas" <mordida...@DoNotSpam.com>
| same thing happened to me today... i was using this program videora to convert videos
| for ur ipod.. then out of nowhere bunch of different sounds started to come out of my
| speakers... so i turned off my modem then i turned it on again.. and music started to
| play again.. so i just turn off my pc.. -- mordidas
|
Another techarena.in idiot post saying "same thing happened to me today" but FAILS to
quote what he's replying to.
techarena.in and its Usenet Gateway is pure PITA POS.
David H. Lipman
From: "Shenan Stanley" <newsh...@gmail.com>
I know this getting to be a real PITA.
I am seeing replies to subject matter 2 ~ 3 years old and they *never* quote what they
reply to!
VanguardLH
> same thing happened to me today... i was using this program videora to
> convert videos for ur ipod.. then out of nowhere bunch of different
> sounds started to come out of my speakers... so i turned off my modem
> then i turned it on again.. and music started to play again.. so i just
> turn off my pc..
Another "me too" reply -- and to a /*19-month old*/ thread! Next time check
the datestamps before posting. Or is that against your mantra?
A leech site pretending to have forums by running a webnews-for-dummies
interface that submits improperly formatted posts through a gateway to
Usenet (aka newsgroups).
Daave
> From: "mordidas" <mordida...@DoNotSpam.com>
>
>> same thing happened to me today... i was using this program videora
>> to convert videos for ur ipod.. then out of nowhere bunch of
>> different sounds started to come out of my speakers... so i turned
>> off my modem then i turned it on again.. and music started to play
>> again.. so i just turn off my pc.. -- mordidas
>>
>
> Another techarena.in idiot post saying "same thing happened to me
> today" but FAILS to quote what he's replying to.
>
> techarena.in and its Usenet Gateway is pure PITA POS.
I hate techarena.in as much as the next guy. Its only saving grace is
there is a link to the thread in the OP's sig. I would imagine they are
typically replying to the initial post in that thread.
But I still think it sucks!
jh55f
Did anyone ever figure anything out about this? I have a somewhat
similar weird thing - but worse! It's not rock music, but rather some
little melody, like a kids tune! Eeeek! It only plays for a couple of
seconds, then quits so if I check running processes, its gone.
Also, for background, I borrowed a barely used laptop from a friend and
loaded a bunch of stuff from my desktop. My desktop never played the
horrible tune, but this laptop did. Now, I just got a new laptop and
transferred everything from the borrowed laptop onto it, and guess what.
That damned tune has apparently come along for the party, so now the new
laptop also randomly plays that tune for a couple of seconds.
Can't wait til I'm out in public and my laptop burps that stupid tune!
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computer?
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: Did anyone ever figure anything out about this? I have a somewhat
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jh55f
That doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't it also play on my desktop
computer (where all the files came from originally)?