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PC is making noises
« on: Dec 5th, 2007, 8:00pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Hi
When I am on my PC, now and again a noise can be heard (when the speakers are on) that is like a camera being clicked. I am absolutely paranoid that someone has hacked in and taking screenshots of my pc.
Any ideas what this could be? Or am I being a berk?
I have Norton Internet Security that appears to be working fine. I have also recently deleted a program called Pando which I grew suspicious of as Norton kept flagging it up.
Thank you
 
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Re: PC is making noises
« Reply #1 on: Dec 8th, 2007, 1:47am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Welcome to the forum maddferrett Wink  
 
I suspect the sounds you are hearing are nothing of concern.  You probably have "sounds" enabled in one of your normal third party programs.  If you have MS Office, for example, it will emit sounds during various functions you are doing with it.  
 
When you hear this noise and you are working with a program, check to see if it has sound enable/disable options.  Of course, Windows itself give out a sound every now and again too when certain things occur.  Look in the Control Panel>Sounds to find which features in Windows gives out a sound and you can test them too.  
 
What version of NIS are you running?  NIS 2008 is the most secure and best version of Norton.  
 
You can do a remote scan with Kaspersky to cross check NIS.  The link below is for the Kaspersky remote scanner.  Odds are if it scans clean, you are clean.
 
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
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Re: PC is making noises
« Reply #2 on: Nov 8th, 2008, 12:35pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify   Remove Remove
Hi,
    I think it's your PC hard disk sound.There is a problem in your hard disk.
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Re: PC is making noises
« Reply #3 on: Jul 20th, 2010, 1:34am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Welcome to the forum Kristine  Cheesy
 
You could be infected with some type of spyware.  Please install Hijackthis and post back here a Hijackthis scan log so that we can analyze it.  The link below is for installing Hijackthis.
 
http://www.misec.net/forum/board/FAQ/1163329424
 
Also, in your forum user profile, please remove the hot link to the Internet Marketing Australia website.  Spamming services and products is not permitted on the forum.
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