start navigation sound (continuation from Sound & Audio)

[darkw]

continuation from this thread:

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/107468-start-navigation-sound-playing-no-reason.html

here's the Highjack log file:

 

[Aphelion]

There'a a lot of junk running that seems unneceesary, first thing I would do is download Malwarebytes free edition and run a full scan. Best thing about Malwarebytes is: When you shut it down it's off, no processes running in the background.

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[darkw]

ran the malwarebytes.

no malware detected

 

[Borg 386]

Is your UAC enabled? I would change it to "Always Notify", that may give you a clue as to what is trying to run. This won't always help if you have malware/virus, but it may point out what's running.

Download and run MSE, do a full scan.

As Aphelion said, there seems to be a lot of stuff running. Unless you need all this software, you may want to go to MSConfig and see what is starting up and maybe trim some of it down.

If you want to take a closer look at the current processes running, d/l Process Explorer and run it as Admin

Windows Sysinternals: Documentation, downloads and additional resources

 

[darkw]

i have ESET SmartSecurity 4, always up to date.

and it doesnt find any virus, should i uninstall it and install MSE?

 

[Borg 386]

You can install MSE. It will give you a warning that running 2 AV's isn't recommended, but it seems to play well with other AV's according to posts I've seen.

I've seen MSE catch things that the "paid" AV's don't. It integrates well with Windows & uses low system resources. I would trust it over the paid versions.

 

[darkw]

installed, updated, and running a scan.

lets see.

 

[darkw]

MSE doesnt work.

it put my PC SOOOO SLOWWWW that i couldnt even open the start menu.

had to hard reboot my pc 2 times and then uninstall it

EDIT: before that i managed to finish the scan, which found an trojan on the internet temp files and removed it, but i doubt it was that what is making the noise.

 

[Borg 386]

Very odd...that's the 1st instance I've heard of MSE slowing down a system. Apparently it was fighting with something there. Or something was fighting it.

You might want to try yanking the existing AV out & just run MSE and see if you get the same results.

Be aware that MSE, in some instances, won't install properly on a system that has certain files already compromised by a virus/worm.

You can also try the AVG Rescue CD, it runs at boot up and scans the system before anything loads.

AVG - AVG Rescue CD Guide

Or d/l the Process Explorer and take a hard look at all the processes running in the background.


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[darkw]

ok, i unistalled ESET and reinstalled MSE. Re running a scan... If it doesnt find anything im going to reinstall ESET

 

[darkw]

i've noticed something...

couldnt it be WLMessenger? i have the WLM sounds disabled but when it logs in it makes that same sound... i believe it is when it loads the ads on the bottom...i think it could be that

EDIT: i found it. it is from msn today.

somehow its an WLM error. when i login into WLM it should open MSN today but it doesnt, however the window is somehow open and reloading every now and then on background, i just cant see it.


reinstalling WLM

 

[Borg 386]

Glad you found the probable program that's launching

I wasn't trying to say you definitely had a virus, but it doesn't hurt to eliminate the possibilities.

It could be anything that's launching, could be Live doing a background update, could be the Google toolbar...could be a number of things.

I hope WLMessenger to be the culprit. If it doesn't, then it's time to look at all the processes running and once you hear the sound, see if any new process has launched.

 

[darkw]

no sound since i turned off msn today. Thank you for your help and im glad it wasnt a virus or something worse!

 

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