Funny Noise

[Kay in London]

Hi
Can anyone there tell me what my ocassional experience
does it means|: I am on internet and and all of a sudden
there is a loud bang as though someone crashed into the
wall and the voice would tell me that I have the
company... Tried various people to explain but to no avail
so far I would be very gratefull for explanation
Regards
Kay

 

[Dave]

there are a couple possibilities. the most likely is that some program you
have setup defined it's own sounds, something like an instant messenger, net
meeting, windows messenger, etc is telling you that one of your contacts has
logged on or sent you a message. check the control panel applet that
controls sounds and see if any of those match the noise you hear, and you
can usually turn them off from there if you don't want them. or, it could
be a virus or other malware, make sure your virus scanner is up to date and
try some of the other malware scanners to check this out.