Is there a virus?

[Smiffie72]

Hi,
Some weird happenings on my pc. Had nothing running on the pc except AVG 8.5
which was doing a virus check and was 2 hours into it.
Just happened to have the speakers on when piano music started playing.
Recognised it but couldn't tell you what it's called. Along with the music, I
could hear what sounded like Hitler doing one of his speaches and also I
could hear what sounded like something from a horror film!! Anyone any idea??
Weird!

 

[olfart]

Hi,
Some weird happenings on my pc. Had nothing running on the pc except AVG
8.5
which was doing a virus check and was 2 hours into it.
Just happened to have the speakers on when piano music started playing.
Recognised it but couldn't tell you what it's called. Along with the
music, I
could hear what sounded like Hitler doing one of his speaches and also I
could hear what sounded like something from a horror film!! Anyone any
idea??
Weird!

keep smokin' that stuff and it'll kill you

 

[Crystal]

Hi,
Some weird happenings on my pc. Had nothing running on the pc except AVG 8.5
which was doing a virus check and was 2 hours into it.
Just happened to have the speakers on when piano music started playing.
Recognised it but couldn't tell you what it's called. Along with the music, I
could hear what sounded like Hitler doing one of his speaches and also I
could hear what sounded like something from a horror film!! Anyone any idea??
Weird!

I bet smiffie's answer was useful...... Sorry, i don't know much about
computers, but it sounds like a virus to me. And just to find some common
ground, I'm kinda wondering about avg 8.5 because ever since i installed it
some crazy stuff has been happening to my computer. I had the old version
and it seemed to work fine, but since I installed 8.5, i don't know what's
going on.... i have malware doctor (virus) that is very annoying... task
manager won't work and system restore wont work. It's probably a
coincidence, but very unusual.

 

[Simon]

Don't know about Hitler or the Horror film stuff but...

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise"
or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication
sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing
or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of
tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes
developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on. Although these symptoms may appear
to be virus-like, they are the result of an electronic hardware monitoring
component of the motherboard and BIOS. You may want to have your computer
checked or serviced.

S.

 

[Smiffie72]

After you mentioned this I tried to do a system restore and mine doesn't work
either. Did you find out how to get it running again?

 

[Tim Meddick]

I've never heard of the 'Für Elise' thing but, the symptoms could well have
a simple origin.

If you were browsing the internet some time before this happened, a .js
(java) script could have executed that belonged to a web page that you had
touched on. No scripts are supposed to be executed when the webpage has
been exited. However, stuff happens on a PC that's not exactly supposed to
and also this sounds like the audio of some web page.

So before you start panicking, consider; Were you using the internet any
time before this happened and has the PC had any reoccurrence of this effect
at all? If the answers are 'yes and no' or even 'no and no' I wouldn't be
TOO concerned. If anything like this happens in the near future, then I
would try and get to the bottom of it by running antivirus / anti-malware
programs until you find the cause.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Smiffie72]

Well all weird things have been happening and I think it's malware or
someting the wife downloaded from an online gaming site.
Lots of pop ups for casino websites and others but I get rid of them before
they pop up.

Anyone direct me to some good Anti Malware software or site?
Cheers

 

[Johnw]

Smiffie72 used his keyboard to write :

Anyone direct me to some good Anti Malware software or site?
Cheers

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware-Screenshot-81598.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
o Important: Rename the downloaded mbam-setup.exe file to mb.exe to
help work around certain malware that will block it from being run.
Forum
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/

 

[Johnw]

Anyone direct me to some good Anti Malware software or site?

More on rename.

Rename the downloaded mbam-setup.exe file to mb.exe to help work around
certain malware that will block it from being run.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5975&pid=25918&mode=threaded&start=
1: Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features and uninstall
Malwarebytes.
Next redownload Malwarebytes but rename it before you download it to
your desktop. As you are in the process of downloading when you get to
the point that the "enter name of file to save to" box appears, in the
"filename" slot, rename mbam-setup.exe to something.exe, then click
Save.
If it installed but will not run navigate to this folder:
2: C:\Programs Files\Malwarebytes' AntiMalware
Rename all the .exe files in the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware folder and
try to run it again.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Totally agree - MalwareBytes is your best bet.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Smiffie72]

I was adviced to try this

http://www.techmixer.com/kaspersky-rescue-disk-load-kaspersky-antivirus-2009-using-dos/

before Malwarebytes as was told that some Malware and Viruses are not being
picked up by it.
It found 32 items!!!!
Pc seems to be working fine now.
One thing that one of the 32 was affecting was the search bar in IE 7 and 8.
After clicking on one of the search results, I was directed to a page that
was nothing to do with the site I had searched for. The search bar is working
properly now, so would definitly recommend the Kaspersky rescue disk. And
it's a good website too for all sorts of handy programs.
Cheers all for you advice.