Mysterious music doesn't go away

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tomoedinburgh

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Have I got a trojan? :eek: My laptop is taken over by some weird software and keeps playing this music (innocuous dance music,
which is not from my HD thats for sure). I dont know where it came from. My
CD tray is empty. AVG search founds nothing wrong. What is this?
I can turn the volume down.. but nohting else.

Does anyone have any suggestion what is happening here?:confused:
 

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Go to the sounds applet in control panel and in the sound tab, make sure windows default is applied. Then look if anyone changed the settings.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio Z46GDU
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    [email protected] w/6MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
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    6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
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    9300M GS 256MB + Intel Integrated 4500MHD
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    13.1" WXGA True Colour Tough
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    1MB/s
Hello tomoedinburgh,
Try taking a look in Task Manager, (ctrl+alt+del), see what is running there, you may be able to spot the rouge music player in services or processes.
A haunted laptop would be a first though, woooooooooowooooooooo ;)
Take a look and post your results, good luck.
 

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    Self Build
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    QX9650 (black box) [email protected]
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Premium
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    8GB-4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR 2-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    2 x ASUS EAH 4870 X 2 (Quad)
    Sound Card
    Supreme FX 2
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    Fujitsu Siemens 22inch flat screen
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    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    150 Gig WD Raptor 300 Gig Maxtor 300 Gig Maxtor, (External)
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    CoolerMaster 1000
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    CoolerMaster N-Vidia stacker 830
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    Noctua NH-U12P x 1x120mm fan, 6x120mm case fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
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    Logitech G15
    Internet Speed
    20Mbps
    Other Info
    Audio FX Pro 5+1 gaming head set
ah, this is embarassing. I CAN"T open the task manager. I used to be able to.
Now nothing comes out when I press these keys. Whats happening to
my laptop? Is this virus? Is there anyway i can get to task manager other than
pressing the keys?:mad::sick:
 

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My Computer

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Build
    CPU
    QX9650 (black box) [email protected]
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Premium
    Memory
    8GB-4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR 2-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    2 x ASUS EAH 4870 X 2 (Quad)
    Sound Card
    Supreme FX 2
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Fujitsu Siemens 22inch flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    150 Gig WD Raptor 300 Gig Maxtor 300 Gig Maxtor, (External)
    PSU
    CoolerMaster 1000
    Case
    CoolerMaster N-Vidia stacker 830
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-U12P x 1x120mm fan, 6x120mm case fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15
    Internet Speed
    20Mbps
    Other Info
    Audio FX Pro 5+1 gaming head set
I got the task manager. my laptop uses ctl shift and esc but thats besides the point.
so many is in process but I cannot find any suspicious entity there,,,,

how do you identity a rogue program in the TM?

by the way, i narrowed down the culpit. When I log off Firefox, it stops.
but it does not come from any one website.

the song singing "Im in chain...." Feck off.......:zip:
 

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Have you installed any firefox addons, toolbars, or anything like that, they some times cause weird things to happen.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Build
    CPU
    QX9650 (black box) [email protected]
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Premium
    Memory
    8GB-4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR 2-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    2 x ASUS EAH 4870 X 2 (Quad)
    Sound Card
    Supreme FX 2
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Fujitsu Siemens 22inch flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    150 Gig WD Raptor 300 Gig Maxtor 300 Gig Maxtor, (External)
    PSU
    CoolerMaster 1000
    Case
    CoolerMaster N-Vidia stacker 830
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-U12P x 1x120mm fan, 6x120mm case fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15
    Internet Speed
    20Mbps
    Other Info
    Audio FX Pro 5+1 gaming head set
Stoney is right and one that comes to mind is foxytunes. You can launch FF without addons to check
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inspiron E 1405
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    [email protected]
    Memory
    4 gigs
    Graphics card(s)
    integrated intel 945
    Sound Card
    integrated
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    300 gig internal
    Internet Speed
    10 down 1.5 up
Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?
 

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tomoedinburgh said:
Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?
Click to expand...
No, just right click, and choose start without Add-ons, if the music stops you know that it was a bad Add-on. So to solve this, simply uninstall all Add-ons, then install one by one until you find the one causing the issue :)
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP
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    Intel Neo
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    2GB
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    Intergrated Intel Graphics
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    10.1
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    160GB
    PSU
    Power Adapter
    Case
    It's special, it flips open :)
    Mouse
    Touchpad
    Keyboard
    Acer
    Internet Speed
    Down: 16mb/s Up: 1.6mb/s
    Other Info
    I killed my HP Laptop :'(
firefox.jpg
 

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    Custom Build
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    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
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    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
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    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
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    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
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    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
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You could also disable all add on's, then enable them one at a time to see which one is the culprit.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Build
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    QX9650 (black box) [email protected]
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    Asus P5Q Premium
    Memory
    8GB-4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR 2-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    2 x ASUS EAH 4870 X 2 (Quad)
    Sound Card
    Supreme FX 2
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Fujitsu Siemens 22inch flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    150 Gig WD Raptor 300 Gig Maxtor 300 Gig Maxtor, (External)
    PSU
    CoolerMaster 1000
    Case
    CoolerMaster N-Vidia stacker 830
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-U12P x 1x120mm fan, 6x120mm case fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15
    Internet Speed
    20Mbps
    Other Info
    Audio FX Pro 5+1 gaming head set
Why don't you just disable the adds or use another browser. I use 6 different browsers, depending on what I want to do.
 

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    Q6600
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    HP w2207h
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    2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
I deleted one adds on. But the music is still there.
I right clicked the icon, then chose "Firefox options" and from there
"Manage adds on" and only one of them was related to Firefox.
It was to do with toolbar. Other adds on there are for different
softwares. I could not find any more adds on there.

Is there a place where I can find the lists of all the Firefox adds on?
 

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tomoedinburgh said:
Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?
Click to expand...

I had Firefox and decided to remove the whole lot. However, the programme is adequate, just remove the add ons if you want to keep it.
 

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    Dell XPS 720
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    Itel Core (TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6800 @ 2.93GHz
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    2 TB
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    NVIDIA GeForce 9900 GTX
    Sound Card
    Creative SB X-FI
    Monitor(s) Displays
    32" Samsung HD
    Screen Resolution
    1024 x 768
    Hard Drives
    3 x 1 TB DEL Hard drives.
    Case
    Gaming
    Cooling
    Liquid Cooling
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    Wired
    Keyboard
    HID Keyboard
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    50 Meg
you'll find ALL Firefox addons HERE... ;)
 

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    ME.....
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    Q9450 @ 3.6ghz
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    P5K PREMIUM
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    HD 5970
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    20'' syncmaster
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    1680x1050
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    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA IDE 160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA 2
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    XCILIO 850w
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    unknown ATX
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    Arctic cooler pro 775
    Mouse
    logitech cordless optical
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    logitech EX110
    Internet Speed
    2mb
thank you skunk, but what i need is not the list of adds on available but the adds on I got in my computer. I need to find out what adds on or file is playing this song.

Any suggestion?
 

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There is another post in this thread that displays a picture on how to do that. I tried the method I gave you and it didn't seem to work. Please use the other method :)
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Intel Neo
    Memory
    2GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Intergrated Intel Graphics
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    10.1
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    160GB
    PSU
    Power Adapter
    Case
    It's special, it flips open :)
    Mouse
    Touchpad
    Keyboard
    Acer
    Internet Speed
    Down: 16mb/s Up: 1.6mb/s
    Other Info
    I killed my HP Laptop :'(
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