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Something has taken over my wife's computer
This evening I was passing by our computer room, when the computer suddenly started playing a mish-mash of audio streams or files. It starts with a musical introduction, then a woman speaking Spanish, then a "news" stream joining that, until several streams were stepping on one another, making all unintelligible.
I killed both her instances of IE, then her Word instance, finally everything. No help. I logged out of her account; even with no one logged in, it continued -- it seems to die out after 10 minutes or so, then restart half an hour or so later.
After I logged into my own account, I looked at the Task Manager, which showed no applications running (audio was still running full steam). I looked at processes, but, since I don't know what all the process names mean, I couldn't tell if anything was out of order.
I opened my corporate Symantec End Point Protection (required by my employer, since I occasionally log in to the facility via vpn), and it saw no problems. I checked for updates, and it said it was up to date.
I restarted Windows and it installed one update. A few minutes after it completed and I logged in, the audio mish-mash continued.
Any ideas>