Mysterious Virus Playing Music on My PC!

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Pink Sparkle Girl

About 30 minutes after I turned on my PC yesterday and again today some rock
music started playing quietly out of my speakers. I isn't any of my own
music and there was no way of stopping it so had to let it play out. It only
seems to do it once but who knows what else may be going on?

How do I delete it and make sure it doesn't do it again? Is this some sort
of weird virus?

I shall run some virus and spyware programmes again but maybe someone out
there know something about it.

Thanks!
 
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David H. Lipman

From: "Pink Sparkle Girl" <[email protected]>

| About 30 minutes after I turned on my PC yesterday and again today some rock
| music started playing quietly out of my speakers. I isn't any of my own
| music and there was no way of stopping it so had to let it play out. It only
| seems to do it once but who knows what else may be going on?
|
| How do I delete it and make sure it doesn't do it again? Is this some sort
| of weird virus?
|
| I shall run some virus and spyware programmes again but maybe someone out
| there know something about it.
|
| Thanks!
|

No, it isn't a 'virus' !
 
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Brian A.

Pink Sparkle Girl said:
About 30 minutes after I turned on my PC yesterday and again today some rock music
started playing quietly out of my speakers. I isn't any of my own music and there
was no way of stopping it so had to let it play out. It only seems to do it once
but who knows what else may be going on?

How do I delete it and make sure it doesn't do it again? Is this some sort of weird
virus?

I shall run some virus and spyware programmes again but maybe someone out there
know something about it.

Thanks!
Click to expand...

It may be someone is pulling a prank on you.
Check and make sure no disk is in a drive.
Check Start button > Programs > Startup folder to see if there's anything in it that
shouldn't be.
Click Start > Run, type in: msconfig and press Enter or click Ok.
Click the Startup tab and see if there's anything in there that shouldn't be.

If you aren't sure of what would or shouldn't be in msconfig startup, post the
contents in a response to this thread for us to see.

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Mark L. Ferguson

Pretty funny, whatever it is. I would suspect some form of 'harmonic' There
are filters(capacitors) you can put on the speaker cable to prevent this. I
would imagine you could just 'shield it out' with some grounded wire wrapped
around the speaker cable.
To determine if my guess is right, simply mute the speaker from the
notification icon, and if it does not stop, that's it.
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nesredep egrob

About 30 minutes after I turned on my PC yesterday and again today some rock
music started playing quietly out of my speakers. I isn't any of my own
music and there was no way of stopping it so had to let it play out. It only
seems to do it once but who knows what else may be going on?

How do I delete it and make sure it doesn't do it again? Is this some sort
of weird virus?

I shall run some virus and spyware programmes again but maybe someone out
there know something about it.

Thanks!
Click to expand...
Now it had had been a radio or your HiFi, you would have gone for the volume
control and turned it down - if that did not work you would have had more
information for people sush as I who spent working life on electronic repairs.
There is a volume control on your computer - try it

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
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Pink Sparkle Girl

Hi Mark, the music stops when I mute the speakers. I wondered if the music
was coming from elsewhere as it is far quieter than everything else, but it
would seem that it is indeed coming from somewhere on my PC!
 
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Pink Sparkle Girl

Hi, the point is that my PC is automatically playing a music file which I do
not own and I cannot stop from playing or find out where it is stored.
Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
 
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Pink Sparkle Girl

Hi Brian, I'm the only person who uses my PC and I'm pretty sure I didn't
pull a prank on myself! I checked the drives anyway and there isn't anything
in my start-up folder. I ran Norton and Ad-Aware - neither found anything.

I'm still waiting to see if the music starts up again today as My PC has
almost been on 30 mins now!
 
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Pink Sparkle Girl

The thing responsible for playing music (and other audio now) is
iexplore.exe. It seems to be connecting on its own and running in the
background. How do I find and delete the culprit?
 
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Swifty

Pink said:
Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
Click to expand...

I think that Process Explorer (which you can download from Microsoft) is
the answer to part of your problem. You can use it in two ways:

1. You can prove that it is iexplore.exe that is playing the music by
locating it in the "Process" list, and suspending it. Once you hit the
right process, suspending it will stop the music. This only proves what
is playing it, but it is conclusive.

2. Once you've found the process (1. Above) you can then use the
process tree to find what started iexplore.exe (hopefully). This might
find the culprit.
 
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C

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Swifty said:
I think that Process Explorer (which you can download from Microsoft) is
the answer to part of your problem. You can use it in two ways:

1. You can prove that it is iexplore.exe that is playing the music by
locating it in the "Process" list, and suspending it. Once you hit the
right process, suspending it will stop the music. This only proves what is
playing it, but it is conclusive.

2. Once you've found the process (1. Above) you can then use the process
tree to find what started iexplore.exe (hopefully). This might find the
culprit.
Click to expand...


What do you mean by "process tree"?

C.
 
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nesredep egrob

Hi, the point is that my PC is automatically playing a music file which I do
not own and I cannot stop from playing or find out where it is stored.
Simply muting the speakers does not stop the problem.
Click to expand...

Not a question about muting the speakers - but simply to turn the VC down - that
would tell me where the sound originates and I might be able to do soomething
for you, muting the speakers will take the music away - but is the volume
control capable of adjusting the level of the music? bearing in mind that the VC
does not mute the speakers - a mute is a single control that is either allowing
sound or not

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
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Swifty

C said:
What do you mean by "process tree"?
Click to expand...

If you click the "Process" column in Process Explorer (which you can
download from Microsoft) you eventually come to a list of the processes
running in your PC. Each process is listed under the one which started,
in what is known as a "Tree display". Using this, you should be able to
find what started the process that is playing your music. That is your
"culprit".
 
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Quang Nguyen

Hi Brian A.
As my PC got same exactly problem as "Pink Sparkle Girl"'s one. All my
comapny's PC , that connect LAN is effected too. PC play music itself every
30 munites once connect to internet. Even I could not run regedit -> pc
automatic log off. I'm sure that got virus. any way to solve it, thanks,
Quang
 
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David H. Lipman

From: "Quang Nguyen" <Quang (e-mail address removed)>

| Hi Brian A.
| As my PC got same exactly problem as "Pink Sparkle Girl"'s one. All my
| comapny's PC , that connect LAN is effected too. PC play music itself every
| 30 munites once connect to internet. Even I could not run regedit -> pc
| automatic log off. I'm sure that got virus. any way to solve it, thanks,
| Quang



Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe

http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

English:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/09/scan-your-computer-with-multiple-anti-virus-for-free/

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
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David H. Lipman

From: "Quang Nguyen" <[email protected]>

| That a virus name Mixa_I.exe
| "Swifty" wrote:
|

Did you run the Multi AV Scanning Tool I suggested ?

If so please reply with an except of the log file that found malware in "Mixa_I.exe".

The FILE name may be Mixa_I.exe.
That is not a virus name.
 

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