Mysterious Virus Playing Music on My PC!

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

"Brian A." wrote:

"Pink Sparkle Girl" wrote in message
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About 30 minutes after I turned on my PC yesterday and again today some rock 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!


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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From: "Quang Nguyen" Quang

| 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/...irus-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 * * *



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That a virus name Mixa_I.exe
"Swifty" wrote:

C wrote:

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Pink Sparkle Girl wrote:
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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http://www.ringers.org.uk


What do you mean by "process tree"?

C.


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From: "Quang Nguyen"

| 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.


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I'm having the problem described here, too. Did this thread ever find a
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If this thread found a resolution, wouldn't it be part of the thread?

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I'm having the problem described here, too. Did this thread ever find
a
resolution?

Read the thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...on+My+PC!% 22

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.

'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.


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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/s...s/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!


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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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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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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.

AcTePuKc wrote:
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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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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aakka098 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.

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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