Mysterious Virus Playing Music on My PC!

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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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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 said:
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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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.
 
aakka098 said:
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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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.
 
Jose;4466555 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.
Click to expand...

Well, gee whiz.
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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.
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
I am guessing that it is only some WWW pages that have this "problem"?
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
Here is a NSFW (not suitable for work) example for a club advertised
in the local news WWW page:

Then you will know if there is something about your computer or if it
is something about that WWW page.
Click to expand...

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

Here is another interesting article.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;261186&x=11&y=11

But I think that one is beeps playing over the PC speaker (but still
amusing).
 
mordidas said:
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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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/micr...d_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. ;-)
 
From: "mordidas" <[email protected]>

| 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.
 
From: "Shenan Stanley" <[email protected]>


| 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. ;-)

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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!
 
mordidas said:
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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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
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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 said:
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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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!
 
So, you transfered the malware that's causing the problem to another
computer?

:
: 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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