[Stealth]

yeah.

my computer's sound card's putting out a looped, continuous police siren.  i can't think of any programs that are making it do that, since only Kazaa, AIM, and McAfee are open..

[mikhael]

Could your PC have a heat alarm?

[StratComm]

Is it actually putting out that sound or is it feeding it to the speakers?  I'd think an alarm would be tied to the internal speaker, so that you'd hear it regardless of your speakers being on/off.

[mikhael]

A good point. But if there's a motherboard chipset driver that sends windows events....?

I know my motherboard chipset driver can do that, but I've got the heat alarms turned off. I already know it gets up to 70C. I don't need an alarm to tell me.

[Stealth]

could be a heat alarm of some sort, but my computer's processor is running at a cool 107 degrees, and many times it goes a good 15 degrees over that without the siren going off.  also, it keeps going when i close USDM, the feature that came with the motherboard.

the sound is not coming from a PC speaker, it's coming out of the speakers that are attached to the sound card.  

i thought at first, a police siren?  does XP have something that plays that sound when it detects you're doing something illegal or something?

[phreak]

vampires did it

[Stealth]

yeah.  sure.

now anyone have a logical explanation?  could it be perhaps my sound control panel (NVidia control panel).  i noticed that during this episode, when i tried opening the control panel, it said that some sound file part of the control panel had performed an illegal operation, etc.  but i still don't know why it would play a siren.

it's happened before too

[Bobboau]

um, maybe your computer is infested with ad/spyware...

[Stealth]

that's a possibility

and i can't get rid of the damn popups that randomly pop up.  like, i'll leave the computer idle, and in the morning i'll have 6 popups, the same site on each one.  and during the day when i'm using it, suddenly like 3 or 4 sites will suddenly pop up.  any good spyware/adware programs?  i've used Spybot search and destroy

[Bobboau]

ok, I'd say that's defenately your problem then

[Sesquipedalian]

Webroot's SpySweeper and PopUpWasher are good.

[Zuljin]

I'm using Ad-aware and Spy Bot search and destroy, seems to take away most of the crap that sneaks in at times

[Janos]

u r being h4X0r3d!

[Black Wolf]

Maybe they found the midget pr0n?

[Nico]

Isn't MacAfee warning you about a virus? I used to have an antivirus which would play a siren sound when detecting a virus. It would also show a warning message too, tho.

[Stealth]

yeah thing is it just did it again, and this time McAfee's uninstalled, so i know it's definatly not McAfee

[Zuljin]

Originally posted by Stealth
yeah thing is it just did it again, and this time McAfee's uninstalled, so i know it's definatly not McAfee

Just try to run a full virus scan and some spyware removers and see if that solves it. It's worth a try, it's the only thing I can think of since the cpu isn't overheating...

Or actually...try checking the RAM, take out the sticks and reinsert them if you can, but try the virus and spyware thingy first

[Sandwich]

Stop using IE - that's how 99.9% of the spyware and viruses sneak through.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Stop using IE - that's how 99.9% of the spyware and viruses sneak through.

Amen to that.

Its amazing how much crap you can avoid just by avoiding lowest common denominator software

[Liberator]

Be aware some websites don't work in Mozilla, et al, very well.