wa8yxm wrote:
I still think the speaker leads are acting like antennas.. The radio station need not be in your back yard, it can be several miles away.
:R:R
Give me a break.
IT IS NOT the speaker leads, wires or amps.
Moving the speakers out of the country or wrapping the PC, wires or speakers in aluminum foil will not fix it.
IT IS A VIRUS.Judging from some of the hits I looked at it is most likely a Rootkit type infection which is not easily detected by normal means nor easy to remove automatically.
Even worse it most likely is a BACKDOOR TROJAN ( IE STEALS YOUR INFO LIKE PASSWORDS, BANKING OR CREDIT CARD NUMBERS).
The following is just ONE of MANY hits I found with a simple search of “audio malware”…
CLICKY LINK TO TEXT BELOWHere is some of the text from the above link for those too lazy to click the link…
“OP: Help removing 'iexplore.exe' ghost audio virus/malware/spyware
I have an unusual virus/spyware/malware running on my computer and I've never seen anything like it. At random intervals audio will start playing. One time, it sounds like a news broadcast, another time it sounds like some Japanese song, or just people talking. I've noticed that whenever the "ghost audio" is playing, I pull up the Windows Task Manager to see if some foreign task in causing this, but it shows the task "iexplorer.exe" running and its Mem Usage is upwards of 50,000 K, which leads me to believe that the software is running through it. I use FireFox and never Internet Explorer, so there is no reason the real "iexplorer.exe' should be running in the background.
I've ran McAfee virus scan, Ad-Aware SE, Eusing registry cleaner, and StopZilla, but none of these programs have located or deleted it. Below is the DDS.txt copy & pasted and I've attached the Attact.txt file. For some reason the GMER.exe program didn't appear to do anything when I double clicked the extracted .exe file. It looked like it was running in the task manager, but there was no GUI pop-up. I hope someone can help...
Reply:
I am sorry to inform you that one or more of the identified infections is a backdoor trojan.
This allows hackers to remotely control your computer, steal critical system information and download and execute files.
If you do any banking or other financial transactions on the PC or if it should contain any other sensitive information, please get to a known clean computer and change all passwords where applicable, and it would be wise to contact those same financial institutions to apprise them of your situation.
OP:
Below are the ESET scan results. It looks like it found 7 infected files.. I've also attached the combofix log file. I uninstalled and removed the files you mentioned, including LimeWire, the outdated java runtimes, and Bodog (which ESET found). I updated Java as you instructed, but I also noticed that there are 2 folders left in c:\program files\java named 'jre1.5.0_06' and 'jre6'. I assume these can be manually deleted as well, but I want to make sure before I do so.
I don't hear or see any trace of the 'iexplore.exe' program I was originally having. Things are looking good.. Once again, I am very grateful for your help!”Search for audio malware for more info..
AUDIO MALWARE SEARCH LINKPlease folks it has nothing to do with the audio section of the PC nor speakers nor wiring of the speakers. Beating that dead horse only helps to confuse the OP further..
I myself HAVE experienced a simular problem with a virus but the audio was not in the background, it was blaring at full volume.
