gunshot noise and bark

[Art]

Every once in a while I get a loud gunshot noise or a
bark. I have turned off the sound on pop-up blocker, but
I am stymied. Also have McAfee Anti-Virus running. Any
ideas? Thanks.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Scan your PC for the presence of viruses and spyware:

Download Ad-aware SE and scan your PC for the presence of spyware:
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=827315

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| Every once in a while I get a loud gunshot noise or a
| bark. I have turned off the sound on pop-up blocker, but
| I am stymied. Also have McAfee Anti-Virus running. Any
| ideas? Thanks.

 

[CS]

Every once in a while I get a loud gunshot noise or a
bark. I have turned off the sound on pop-up blocker, but
I am stymied. Also have McAfee Anti-Virus running. Any
ideas? Thanks.

You've got some kind of spyware or junkware on your machine - unless
you have leftovers from an old hunting game. Scan your machine with a
good AV program and use programs like Ad-Aware or Spy Bot regularly to
search out and remove spyware, junkware, malware, and so forth.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Maybe someone messed with your sound settings or you've installed a theme.
Go to Control Panel-> Sounds and audio devices. Then under the Sounds tab
change the sound scheme to windows default.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Did you shoot your dog?

 

[Gordie]

Sounds like it's the DOG that's got the gun!!!

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Bad Dog.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Every once in a while I get a loud gunshot noise or a
bark. I have turned off the sound on pop-up blocker, but
I am stymied. Also have McAfee Anti-Virus running. Any
ideas? Thanks.

Sounds like the McAfee (I think) spam killer program. My wife runs it
on our desktop machine, and these are exactly the sounds it emits. A
gunshot means it's just killed a SPAM message. The dog barking means
it's flagged something as possible SPAM (I think). There's also
something like a harp being strummed when it passes an innocent
message.

 

[Mike Schmieg]

MailWasher does this when messages identified as spam
come in unless you turn off the sound. Are you running
that program?