unexplained sounds from puter!

[brockenspectre]

Hi! I wonder if anyone can help. The past couple of times I have browsed into this forum my puter speakers have "broadcast" a split second of a noisy sound file .. I can't recognise what it is...something like a voices/shouting? I have nothing running that could cause this!

Can anyone help explain this please?

:confused:

PS I just went to JetBlast and the same thing happened!

[BEagle]

Nothing wrong with your computer. It's another stupid sound file associated with a horse racing advert at the foot of the page. Not that anyone ever bothers with these adverts......................

[brockenspectre]

BEagle thank you! I was worried that somehow a virus was infecting the puter despite virus protection!!

:D

[PaperTiger]

Find your browser's internet options (under Tools in IE). Select the advanced tab and scroll down. Uncheck the Play Sounds box. There's nothing on anyone's site, banner or ad that I want to hear without being asked, thank you.
You might want to uncheck the animations as well, I don't need THEM either.

[BOAC]

broken thing - big discussion thread about this here a while back when it last happened! Had us all updating our virus database every 10 minutes 'just in case'. We threatened to ram a car into Danny's house if he didn't stop it:rolleyes:

Corresponded with me this time with an attempt by a site to stick 'Gator' on my machine. THOUGHT I had said 'no', and then I started hearing these galloping hooves.........................

Not long after that the men in white coats came to the door........... I blame it ALL on Fyne!

[rob_frost]

I had it too. Though I'd wait a bit and check I wasn't going mad before asking.

[Tinstaafl]

Jesus f@#$%^& christ! I've just spent an entire evening trying to track down what this f***ing sound was.

Searched & sampled every single sound on my machine to try & track the f***ing thing down. With no joy, of course.

I was beginning to think my PC was infected. :mad:


I certainly don't appreciate unasked for noises from f***ing ads! Annoying & intrusive ads like that are a guaranteed way of causing me to NEVER use that company's services or products. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Engineer]

Computers don't you just love them :p :p :p

[Molly1]

Thanks for the info, I wondered what the hell it was, have now knocked out play sounds in internet options peace at last.:)

[Capt PPRuNe]

As of 1830z I have (hopefully) disabled the ad with the sound. I am as angry as the rest by these intrusive ads which have not been agreed to by me. Banners are a way of life if you want to keep PPRuNe free but I have always insisted that there are no pop-ups and now I have requested that they do not include any ads with sound files.

[Tinstaafl]

Thank you Danny.

[Bally Heck]

Try again Danny. The Sony Viaio advert does it too. Although only if you accidentally pass your cursor over it.

[rob_frost]

yeah, i get that too

[Tinstaafl]

The bloody Sony ad doesn't just make that sound when the cursor crosses it. It also kicks off during page loading - even when the cursor is nowhere near the ad location.

Guess who WON'T be buying anything Sony from now on...? :mad:

These companies must be aware that annoying potential customers isn't likely to turn them into actual customers? Surely they know that few people like their pop-ups or intrusive sounds??? :confused:

[Engineer]

Any one know a way of disabling the ads in this forum?