Mysterious Virus Playing Music on My PC!

On Jun 16, 6:25*pm, aakka098 wrote:
Jose;4466555 Wrote:



On Jun 15, 10:32*pm, Bast wrote:
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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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.

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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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/
SUPERAntiSpywa (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/
AVG (AVG): http://free.avg.com/

Here is another interesting article.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...1186&x=11&y=11

But I think that one is beeps playing over the PC speaker (but still
amusing).

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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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 wrote:
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/micro...fd5326ea006f1/

The TechArena version:
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-x...ort/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. ;-)

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From: "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.. -- 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.



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From: "Shenan Stanley"

| mordidas wrote:
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/micro...rt/browse_frm/
| thread/5ddfd5326ea006f1/

| The TechArena version:
| http://forums.techarena.in/windows-x...ort/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. ;-)

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| Shenan Stanley
| MS-MVP
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| How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
| http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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!


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mordidas wrote:

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?

http://forums.techarena.in

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).

David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "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.. -- 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!