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mikehende
11-16-2006, 10:24 AM
Strangest freakin thing. Turn on my son's pc and music is playing, popular songs like from a radio station or something, I went to startup but don't recognise any programs which may be playing music in the background and there is nothing in the system tray. When I open and play of the music programs on his pc, you hear both sounds together, the music program and the sound from the unknown source both with equal volume, how can I track don this unknown source of music please?
dbarrow
11-16-2006, 01:36 PM
Same thing over and over?
Any internet activity going on?

If it's the same thing over and over, it's playing an mp3 or wmv from somewhere internal.
Look in SOUNDS and see if he attached one to a Windows sound, which can be done.

If it is a streaming audio, it could be some corrupted streaming program or adware malform that came from some download that plays streaming music.

Maybe he is intentionally trying to drive you insane!
mikehende
11-16-2006, 01:45 PM
Maybe he is intentionally trying to drive you insane!


Sounds like my boy Doug, lol!! Will look into your ideas as oon as he gets off his game, thanks.
mikehende
11-16-2006, 02:22 PM
Any internet activity going on?
If it is a streaming audio, it could be some corrupted streaming program or adware malform that came from some download that plays streaming music.
!


Looks like it Doug, whenever I disconnect from the net, music stops. What's next? Run an adware scan?
Rob-S
11-16-2006, 02:27 PM
do the free online malware scan at www.trendmicro.com
mikehende
11-16-2006, 02:35 PM
will do Rob, thanks.
PeteF
11-17-2006, 03:23 AM
Try this...

CTRL+ALT+DEL

Look at the processes.

Sort list by CPU order and see if you can find the
app (filename) that's playing music.

End Process on suspected filename to verify it's
the troublemaker.

Do a search on the filename to find out what folder
it's in or what program it's associated with.

---pete---
mikehende
11-17-2006, 08:23 AM
Try this...

CTRL+ALT+DEL

Look at the processes.

Sort list by CPU order and see if you can find the
app (filename) that's playing music.
---pete---


Turned on his pc a few minutes ago and no more music but will keep all of the ideas here for future refernce [thanks], Pete, how do I "sort list by CPU order"?
PeteF
11-17-2006, 07:02 PM
Turned on his pc a few minutes ago and no more music but will keep all of the ideas here for future refernce [thanks], Pete, how do I "sort list by CPU order"?

Simple, just click on the CPU column where it says CPU.
---pete---
mikehende
11-17-2006, 07:30 PM
Wow! What a tip! Thanks a million Pete!:)