HELP! music is playing in the background but no music program is open!

[tammer10]

ok so im hearing comming from my speakers, some music, but mostly commercials. i was browsing the web and all the sudden i hear "buy a mcdonalds big mac today!" i dont get it i went to task manager and nothing looks weird. here's ahttp://img404.imageshack.us/i/audiosnap.jpg screen shot of active tasks


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but when i went to audio mixer there is a volume tab for "name not available" and if i mute it music goes away....i dont get it. help!!!



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[fireberd]

Are you close to a radio station's transmitter site and antenna? That sounds like "RFI" (Radio Frequency Interference" getting into your speaker system.

When you get it, unplug the speakers from the PC but leave them powered on and the volume up and see if you still get it. If you do it's RFI and the speaker system is picking it up or it's coming through the AC power line to the speakers. If this just started I would suspect either a bad cable ground or just a dirty plug connection somewhere in the system.

 

[pebbly]

Are you close to a radio station's transmitter site and antenna? That sounds like "RFI" (Radio Frequency Interference" getting into your speaker system.

When you get it, unplug the speakers from the PC but leave them powered on and the volume up and see if you still get it. If you do it's RFI and the speaker system is picking it up or it's coming through the AC power line to the speakers. If this just started I would suspect either a bad cable ground or just a dirty plug connection somewhere in the system.

good info from fireberd ,also run mbytes antimalware Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes it may be a virus causing this to happen

 

[Aphelion]

EDIT:

Does Firefox have a plugin named "Cool Previews" running, if so, disable it.

If not Firefox it could possibly be a virus.

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Looks like malware or virus of some type, run a Google search on: unwanted music playing

From the couple of sites I looked at it seems to run from a non-windowed iexplore.exe (Internet Explorer) streaming music and ads.

strange....

Ap

 

[tammer10]

thanks for your help...it was indeed a virus, I found out it also happened before to my brother, and i downloaded malwarebytes and found that it was malware, and it got resolved.
I appreciate the help i received

 

[Aphelion]

thanks for your help...it was indeed a virus, I found out it also happened before to my brother, and i downloaded malwarebytes and found that it was malware, and it got resolved.
I appreciate the help i received

Good to see you got it resolved.

Ap

 

[quanhainhatrang]

need help.when I listen the music or audio book I still hear some sound but I don't know where it came from still to hear about 5 or 10 minute,i transfer to USB and play in my car but same problem.please help,thank you.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

Check that there's no hidden popup (??? contradiction in terms but you know what I mean !!) or any browser session running.

Sometimes some sites open up other commercial sites -- gambling or Stock trading sites come to mind which play multi-media too.

If this stuff doesn't go away I should re-install W7 again from scratch as there's something buried into the system. I actually never trust cleansing software anyway - I'd always restore from a CLEAN backup image -- and if I don't have one of those then I'd re-install.

Did you download the music / audio book from a Torrent site -- this can sometimes happen when content is obtained from those sources.

Cheers
jimbo