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Im not sure where its coming from but Id shoot big in case its God messing with you.
If it is a virus,it’s a cool one…:tongue:
and i want it too!
In all seriousness guys – I need to find out what this is. For all I know this could be gathering all my usernames / passwords or email accounts or spamming via Outlook.
I can suggest you to use antivirus NOD32 I have use it for a long time and never had a problem with viruses.
Thanks Kotico. I am currently running both AVG and Symantec, so would hope to have caught it with one of the 2, but I can certainly try yet another.
Sometimes if I move my mouse over a video ad, the ad starts to play. I’ll have music going, and all of a sudden I hear talking and other noise clashing with my music. At first I didn’t know what it was, but after it happened a few times, I figured it out. I don’t remember exactly where this happens, though. It happens on a pretty big site, like MSNBC or Yahoo or something.
Yeah, I’ve definitely seen/heard that before.
This sound byte happens at random about twice per hour
I really have no idea where it comes from but the voice sounds a lot like George Bush and that is enough for me to want to remove it.Hey mate
I have experienced similar things and realised that it was actually a banner with smiley faces on it… If i remember correctly myspace has these banners sometimes…
Basically the smiley faces on the banners start talking.. it freaked me out…
Not sure if thats the case with yours, but if I find another one of those banners I’ll post the url here.Ill do some searching too to see if I can find anything related for you.
CheersThe smileys are a Zango front (adware) or it’s one of their main distributors and they advertise on major CPM networks like Casale. CPX Interactive has even started private label distribution of Zango. Affiliates/Distributors get $0.40 per install. To read what kind of crappy application/operation Zango is go to http://www.benedelman.org/.
As a side note (just happened again)… I only had 1 web browser open (Firefox) and had 0 web pages with ads on them. 5 Tabs were stats from my websites (all using a custom stats program, so no ads there). Another tab with CAP.
so – I don’t think this is an ad situation (which is why I brought it up originially)
I knew that George Bush hasn’t been taking the intrusion of privacy all that seriously but turning up on people’s PCs asking them about their Christmas presents is going too far :tongue:
If you can’t figure it out a good PC security forum is bleeping computer.
Are you running AIM by any chance? I think this happened to me when I had AIM going a little while back.
I’ve actually had this happen too, but after I closed my browser. The message wasn’t the same and I don’t remember what is said but it surprised me. I turned the computer off and rebooted and it was a few days before it happened again. Weird. I run AVG scans every morning and nothing has shown up. I use IE but have Firefox too.
It sounds more like adware than a virus. I would download spyware doctor or a similar spyware program and run it. Also check your toolbars in Firefox. Spyware doctor should pick it up for ya.
Damn your being haunted! Every now and then I pick up truckers chatting on my pc freaks me out I know that much..
