Strange noise no matter what programs are open! Cash register like CHING. Pls help I’m dying here!?

January 9, 2010

Very much at my wits end here. This noise is driving me bonkers.

I have restarted, closed every program, run virus checks, trojan checks, malware, spyware checks, cleaned my registry, restarted, haven’t added any new hardware or software and I still cannot figure out where this noise is coming from. If the speakers are off, simple – no noise. The time in between the sound varies, sometimes it’s 2 seconds and other times it can be 10 minutes. It sounds like a CHING, cash register or photo snap noise. Happens even when I have nothing open and just there @ the desktop. I know I’m not back doored so nobody has my webcam open and is snapping photos or anything like that. Anybody have any clue as to what this annoying god awful noise is? I can’t listen to anything (videos, music, etc) because the noise adds itself right in there just to bug the crap out of me! There is no noise @ startup, & yahoo, aim or any other messenger is not open and the noise still goes on. HELP!
No screensaver running and it does it all the time no matter what is open or closed, program wise. i have run every anti spyware program out there well …almost and i have no clue where this noise comes from. Was hoping someone else had this happen and could give me an answer.

Help with severe internet problems (malware, viruses, spyware problems)?

January 1, 2010

Ok, so here is my problem. I was on myspace looking at a music artists’ photos, when all of a sudden, my anti virus program (Avast) pops up and tells me a whole bunch of viruses are invading my computer. After this occurrence, my internet has been really messed up.

So over the past 5 days or so, I have been virus scanning my entire computer about 10 times, and my anti virus cannot find any more viruses. I have also done anti-spyware scans and I have eliminated a bunch of spyware, too.

When I say my internet has been really messed up, I mean this: My anti virus’ script blocker and all of the other blockers are on their highest settings along with Firefox’s pop-up blocker, and I still get pop-ups, something I have almost never gotten before.

Besides this, when I try to visit websites, my Firefox error console gets riddled with error messages telling me it doesn’t recognize or can’t read a certain part of a website and it says "Declaration dropped."

Also, when I tried to install a registry clean up software, I got a message saying it wasn’t a valid Win32 application or something of that sort. I eventually got one installed, but my internet hasn’t shown any signs of improving.

By the way, when I typed in Firefox’s website to try to re-install it, the website wouldn’t load. It just wouldn’t. Also, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer aren’t any faster.

My computer can still play video games and do almost everything else that doesn’t include the internet just fine, but my internet is just so messed up.

Can someone please help me? My computer internet has never acted this way.

Thank you!!!!!!!!

Registry Cleaners & picture error that my photos can’t be displayed?

December 29, 2009

I never had a problem until I ran a registry cleaner with this error that I keep getting. Every time I try to look at a photo close up an error comes up that my computer cannot display photos or videos due to an error. HELP!

How do you repair damaged SD Card?

December 2, 2009

How do you repair damaged SD Card?

I have a 512MB SD…Everything was fine until 1 day, my Kodak C613 could no longer read it and said it needs to be reformatted, I tried reformatting it using the digital camera but it couldnt. I tried using it in my PC and tried to reformat it under Windows VIsta but it only reads "242 MB" when its supposed to be 512mb. I tried it anyway but it still couldnt no matter what even quick or quick format unchecked… I tried downlaoding a format utility and it reads the same 242MB as the size… I was still able to recover most of my lost photos using recovery software but I need to make it back to 512 again. Do you know if my SD card is already damaged?? Help, help please…

How do you repair damaged SD Card?

November 18, 2009

I have a 512MB SD…Everything was fine until 1 day, my Kodak C613 could no longer read it and said it needs to be reformatted, I tried reformatting it using the digital camera but it couldnt. I tried using it in my PC and tried to reformat it under Windows VIsta but it only reads "242 MB" when its supposed to be 512mb. I tried it anyway but it still couldnt no matter what even quick or quick format unchecked… I tried downlaoding a format utility and it reads the same 242MB as the size… I was still able to recover most of my lost photos using recovery software but I need to make it back to 512 again. Do you know if my SD card is already damaged?? Help, help please…