Phantom Radio
 

My work computer has decided to randomly start playing what sounds like internet radio stations. It does this all the fucking time. Before it starts I will hear a clicking sound (as if I were clicking a link), and then a few seconds later it starts up. After a while it will stop again. Help. It's annoying.

I share your lament, Mat. I get the same shit on mine from time to time.
My first thoughts were that it was some pop-up my eye did not catch, or a built-in advertisement being played through one of my programs. Upon inspection, I found no such things.

Computer ghosts.

I remember I did something once that seemed to shut it up. Cannot recall what. TO GOOGLE! *zoom*

Edit: Possible solutions...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9082730AAnbd9o

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/e...0-77160b41d0e7

http://www.computing.net/answers/sec...rus/20952.html

Thanks. It seems like those people are as perplexed as I am, though.

Once I logged onto my mum's work colleagues PC and it started making a weird chanting noise. Turned out it was an indian thing to remind the computer user to start praying. It really surprised me.

Never heard of this before :s. Sound like either adware or a faulty auto-connect setting in a media player.

Hammer + Computer = Fix'd.

Try Ctrl Alt Dlt, turn it off an on again, clean the gunk out of the mouse.

That looks wrong, I don't know why, it just does.

I think it is, but I feel like I've seen a delete key with that on it.

For consistency it should work, judging by the other two, but I just don't know man.

I just don't know anymore.

This happens whenever I try to make a reference to Futurama...

Prove it.

I should have known Pilot would come in here, whip out his big, computer-technical dick and jizz all over this discussion.

"Computer-technical" meaning "Sexy".
"Discussion" meaning "My face".

Get some sort of spyware software and do a scan. Also antivirus. I tend to find AVG does better than most self-described spyware programs at finding shit that's going wrong.

Phantom Radio would be a great name for a radio station.

Are your speakers wireless? Maybe they are picking up signals in the airwaves.
Or maybe it's a new kind of Trojan-esque super-virus? The first thing is more likely.

I think it's a radio station already. First thing that came up in my Google search was a station by the same name.

Is it one of those hard rock teen angst stations?

Either that, or it's easy listening for old people nearing their timely demise.
Or perhaps it's just creepy organ music.

Phantom Radio - All organ, ALL THE TIME.

I love Kill God. Best SH track ever. Period.
Gabe, did I mention I did my own rendition of it? I guess I didn't considering I haven't been on AIM in forever.

I would recommend checking what processes are running if you haven't already. Google anything that looks suspicious. Or stop anything that's auto-starting from auto-starting, one at a time.

Also, have you seen a lady in a white dress with a frilly white parasol in odd places recently?

Why does she keep staring at me?

Because you forgot to put any trousers on this morning.