AUDIO ADWARE??????????????

[TECHIE1O1]

A few times my desktop seems to start playing an audio recording which is an ad of some type. It did it 2-3 times already.

This morning, the same thing happened on my laptop.

Has anyone heard of this before?????

I ran Spybot and Adaware which found nothing.

A full anti-virus scan showed nothing either.

Am I going nuts???

techie

[techie101]

Forgot to mention.....

The audio starts by itself. No player of any kind is running.

Peculiar???? Since it started in a second computer, it makes me wonder if this is some new kind of "annoying-ware".


techie

[LowWaterMark]

Do you have any instant messenger or chat type software running? There are reports of some audio based ads coming through those products, even when people have various ad suppression settings / software configured.

[techie101]

low,

Yes, I usually have AIM running on both of the computers I use.

Can I do anything to prevent this nonsense?

Thanks for the reply
techie

[LowWaterMark]

Take a look at this link. I think it describes the problem and possible solutions best:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8359415~root=security,1~mode=flat

[techie101]

low,

Thank you for the link. It definetley is coming from AOL.
I will try to enter all the server addresses into my blocker, and search my computer for the elf files and delete them.

I will also raise a strong protest with AOL.

Take Care,
techie