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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
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So recently I've been getting "phantom" sound on my computer and I have no idea what's causing it. What I mean by that is I keep hearing ads/music playing when there is nothing open that would have such things in it. Even when I turn browser sounds off on my volume mixer, so I know it's not just horribly delayed Flash ads or something. The audio is usually choppy and cuts out after a few seconds, but it's getting irritating as it plays over whatever music or movies I'm currently running. I ran Antispyware and Malwarebytes but that didn't solve it. Anyone even have the slightest idea what I'm dealing with here?
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Vaenamoenen
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What kind of sound card are you using?
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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No idea, whatever an HP G60 comes installed with.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
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I've experienced this, I had other instances of a browser open and when I alt-ctrl-del I saw like 4 other instances of Firefox open playing ads and other dumb shit. No idea why they weren't actually showing up when I alt-tabbed over. I stopped using Firefox and haven't had it happen since. Not saying you should switch browsers, just saying a possible cause.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
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| I've experienced this, I had other instances of a browser open and when I alt-ctrl-del I saw like 4 other instances of Firefox open playing ads and other dumb shit. No idea why they weren't actually showing up when I alt-tabbed over. I stopped using Firefox and haven't had it happen since. Not saying you should switch browsers, just saying a possible cause. |
i've had this happen as well. the ads appear off screen. i think i had to do something like hit f11 for them to appear on screen or something like that.
i dont think it happened on firefox w/me though. if anything, it was definitely IE that was giving that issue.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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What operating system are you running?
Which web browser are you using?
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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Windows Vista and Firefox
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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Not as relevant as the other posts, but if you're using firefox and you don't have AdBlocker Plus (which seems likely in context), get it. The internet will never be the same.
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
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Klimbatize
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Thanks, Preng. I hadn't installed that yet. And now I have.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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Location: Phyrexia
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Alright, worth a shot. And you can never have too many ad blocking thingies...
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GPFontaine
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Location: Connecticut
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If you browse using another browser such as IE or Chrome do the same symptoms appear?
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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I don't know, I don't use any others and the only other one I have is IE. And this phantom sound business happens infrequently enough that I'd have to use it for a while to test and see.
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GPFontaine
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Try looking through your Add-ons within Firefox to see if there are any that you don't recognize. Often times one of them is the culprit. Running Malwarebytes and Superantispyware should help you out as well. See ninite.com to pick up the malware cleaning utilities.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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Alright, after checking the Add Ons, I found a few I didn't want, a few i had no idea where they came from and that my Adblocker was actually OFF for some reason. Let's see if that helps.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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So I switched to Chrome, ran Malwarebytes, Super AntiSpyware and Spybot Search & Destroy and I'm still hearing this shit. Starting to piss me off because I was pretty sure it was Firefox. Now I don't know what the fuck it is.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Reformat. It'll fix it everytime. 
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