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norie
December 1st, 2003, 07:42 PM
This scared the heck out of me the first time it happen--being 4am and completely slient--but all of a sudden my headphones where blasting with an inaudiable noise. I put my headphones on and lowered the volume; it was a movie trailer. Now this wouldn't have been particularly strange if i were on any webpage (wav file) but i wasn't. I didn't think to much of it the first time it happened, but then it happened again for the second day in a row. I was thinking it was some kind of adware, so i ran ad-aware, and i came up with nothing in particular. Any know of anything like this happening. Also, the only new software that i've installed lately was Apache, mySQL, and php, so i doubt it's a progam i've installed.

Yeldarb
December 1st, 2003, 07:47 PM
i've been getting this too
i think it may be AOL Instant Messenger, do you have that open?

norie
December 1st, 2003, 07:50 PM
yea, **** AIM

Alex
December 1st, 2003, 08:18 PM
yes, aim, that also scared the heck out of me also.

:)

StylingPaT
December 1st, 2003, 11:07 PM
Ya haha. That has happened to me before. Its great :thumb:

norie
December 9th, 2003, 01:16 AM
i found out how to stop it:

1. find AIM directory.
2. find advert.ocm and admin.ocm
3. delete advert.ocm
4. copy admin.ocm and rename it advert.ocm