Topic: silence of the lambs

[KRO]

ok dont laugh, i have only very recently been getting the sound of bleeting lamb on my pc, does anyone have any idea's, a friend seems to think it might be a virus..(i do hope not) but i just seem to get this random...baa  ?
i am running vista home edition, and AOL are my broadband provider..and i'm currently running AVG free edition..thanks for any help..

[sam]

it does seem like some application might be running in the background... but a virus making noises like that, hmmm...

[Sandra]

I had a trojan a few months back that started a program that sounded like a radio broadcast every so often for what appeared to be no reason or particular pattern.
If you open your task manager up when the noise appears, look in the processes part and see if theres something running thats just a letter then .exe
I had various ones coming up from a.exe to g.exe.
If you highlight it and click on End Process the sound should go.
If it t day, look in C/Temp folder and on mine I had all those a.exe and b.exe files in there. I deleted them all and after scanning with a trojan remover, malwarebytes, AVG and every other clean up program that I had it got rid of everything.

[GillE]

You had that too, Sandra?  My antivirus picked it up before it could do any damage, but I had to use the Sophos anti-rootkit to finally clear it.

[Sandra]

Well it was my fault really Gill, I had downloaded something and scanned it and it said it was clean.
When I installed it and ran the keygen AVG, flagged it up as a trojan.
I assumed it was a false positive, as so often happens, and told it to continue.
Shortly afterwards all the problems started  

[sam]

You had that too, Sandra?  My antivirus picked it up before it could do any damage, but I had to use the Sophos anti-rootkit to finally clear it.

Oh the fun of using windows.

[Rik]

Of course, it's always possible a lamb crept in to keep warm and now can't get out again. 

[Simon]

This is not a joke question, but you haven't got a little cartoon sheep running round your desktop have you, KRO?

http://www.slinkycity.com/windows-desktop-sheep.html

If that's it, you should be able to remove it via Add / Remove programs.  If not, then sorry, I don't know. 

[KRO]

hi simon, no sheep just the sound, it's actually sounded off once so far this morning....

[Simon]

Anything odd in Task Manager, or in Add / Remove programs?  You could try running SuperAntiSpyware or MalwareBytes, in case it's spyware.

[davy51]

Download and run A-Squared it will find it and allow yyou to  follow it to the folder its in then you can delete it

Itg sounds like a trojan
A squares is slow but will find what others miss


http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

[KRO]

hi,
    i'm still getting this sound periodically, i downloaded A-squared and ran a deep scan, which came up with 32 low risk cookies...should i delete all these ?.......thanks

[Clive]

No harm in doing so but no harm in leaving them either.  Could it be your fan making a noise? 

[sam]

hi,
    i'm still getting this sound periodically, i downloaded A-squared and ran a deep scan, which came up with 32 low risk cookies...should i delete all these ?.......thanks

was there any evidence in the task manager at all?

[KRO]

hi sam,
          no it all seemed fairly normal in the task manager (but hey, i wouldn't have a clue what i was looking at really) at least there was nothing like sandra suggested there might be, ie: a single letter then .exe