static and slow play when playing music with media player

static and slow play when playing music with media player

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static and slow play when playing music with media player russ 05-07-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?cnVzcw==?= on May 7, 2006, 7:40 pm
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I think I have a virus but can't find it. It just started today, when I play
media player it will cut in every 10 seconds or so and give me static. When
I open another application or document while media player is playing it cuts
off breifly.

I look at the task manager and it spikes at 100%. I have a gig of memory
and a P4 processor.

what do you think???

Posted by Phil Weldon on May 7, 2006, 8:01 pm
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'russ' wrote, in part:
| I think I have a virus but can't find it. It just started today, when I
play
| media player it will cut in every 10 seconds or so and give me static.
When
| I open another application or document while media player is playing it
cuts
| off breifly.
|
| I look at the task manager and it spikes at 100%. I have a gig of memory
| and a P4 processor.
_____

Please post more information about your problem.

Include WHAT makes you think you have a virus.
Include WHAT steps you have taken to keep your system infection free.
WHAT it is that you are trying to play with WHICH media player? Is it DRM
material?

'Task Manager' ALWAYS spikes to 100% CPU usage when it starts; it collects
all the performance information as quickly as possible.

And have you checked the audio connections?

Phil Weldon


|
| what do you think???



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Z1B1dGVy?= on May 8, 2006, 2:15 pm
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You can never be sure if this is a virus, a trojan, a spyware or a buggy
application for all that matters. What I would do is goto the task manager,
and see which Process / application is taking the maximum time (cpu time) or
maximum memory, or load, however you may put it. and then i would try to
isolate that. I have seen at times we install applications and they are
running in the background.

I had similar problems with a wrongly configured seti@home client, and
instead of using my cpu at the time there was a screensaver running, it was
using 90% of my cpu time when i was doing work.. and hence making my machine
terribly slow.

Posted by David H. Lipman on May 8, 2006, 2:25 pm
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| You can never be sure if this is a virus, a trojan, a spyware or a buggy
| application for all that matters. What I would do is goto the task manager,
| and see which Process / application is taking the maximum time (cpu time) or
| maximum memory, or load, however you may put it. and then i would try to
| isolate that. I have seen at times we install applications and they are
| running in the background.
|
| I had similar problems with a wrongly configured seti@home client, and
| instead of using my cpu at the time there was a screensaver running, it was
| using 90% of my cpu time when i was doing work.. and hence making my machine
| terribly slow.

Sure you can. While the data files may be thatraget of viruses (deletion,
corruption or
other modification) malware doesn't target audio.

However, malware creators use Social Engineering to get you infected. So the
next time you
go to a FREE web site to download a Media Codec, beware, it may just be a ZLob
Trojan.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?cnVzcw==?= on May 8, 2006, 2:36 pm
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The media player is just an example. It happens when the windows sound is
played when you first boot up and when other sounds play on the computer. If
I watch the task manager it will spike to 100% then drop back down with
breaks in the sound and static.

Anti-virus
I have Mcaffee firewall on my comuter and have run their anitivirus, adaware
and a few others. I can't find anything.

If I go to sys config and boot up just the basic devices and services then
it works. Once I start adding on the problem comes back.


"Phil Weldon" wrote:

> 'russ' wrote, in part:
> | I think I have a virus but can't find it. It just started today, when I
> play
> | media player it will cut in every 10 seconds or so and give me static.
> When
> | I open another application or document while media player is playing it
> cuts
> | off breifly.
> |
> | I look at the task manager and it spikes at 100%. I have a gig of memory
> | and a P4 processor.
> _____
>
> Please post more information about your problem.
>
> Include WHAT makes you think you have a virus.
> Include WHAT steps you have taken to keep your system infection free.
> WHAT it is that you are trying to play with WHICH media player? Is it DRM
> material?
>
> 'Task Manager' ALWAYS spikes to 100% CPU usage when it starts; it collects
> all the performance information as quickly as possible.
>
> And have you checked the audio connections?
>
> Phil Weldon
>
>
> |
> | what do you think???
>
>
>

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