i 've had an inspirion 600m with windows xp prof. for 3 months. I've encountered a problem , don't know if it's hardware, windows, or something malisious. When I open email in outlook 2003 I hear a noise similar to a woodpecker on speed , that only lasts a few seconds. when i open internet explorer to google , click in the search space & see
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i've run norton virus scan & found nothing , I cleaned the "e "key ( it was'nt stuck).
Does anyone know what this is? I've spent 2 days researching & found nothing.
Thanks , I'll try your suggestions , would spyware cause that annoying noise also?
I'll also add that yesterday when this started , the "e" key stopped working all together. Now the key works fine. & I thought the problem was fixed . but apparently not. It does'nt happen all the time either & I'm not even touching that key .
it sounds like it is spy ware to me
try downloading spybot, just search for it on google
then download AVG antivirus, i am suggesting downloading AVG because i had norton once and now that i have AVG i would definatly say that it is a all around better program for getting rid of viruses. it does not slow down you computer when you start your computer up an it detects way more things when you scan. when i got AVG it found 17 inactive viruses including a trojan, when norton would not find anyhting. the only downside is that it takes a little longer to scan your computer. to download AVG just search for it on google and download the free adition unless you whant to buy the pro version.
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Posted January 18th, 2006 14:00