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by muchach1

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Hi Folks, my sister has windows 98 with aol installed. When she logs on to aol after a few minutes but not all the time, an audio stream blurts out her name. There are no IM's that she is receiving and she has no clue how or who is doing this? The only thing I can think of is she opened up an email with an attachment that had a program that installed itself on her hard drive, sought of a gag virus, not to do harm but to annoy. Any ideas ?

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by thechas

I avoid AOL like the plague. Are you sure that this is not an AOL related "feature"?

If you are confident that it is not from AOL, the best next step is to install and run a couple of spy-ware checking programs.

I use AdAware www.lavasoft.de

and SpyBot Search and Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

With W98, you can also bring up the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and take a look at what is running.
On a typical "clean" system, there should be less than 1 1/2 pages of programs listed.

If something looks suspicious, verify what it is before shutting it down.

You can run msconfig from the run box on the start menu.
Click on the startup tab, then see what programs load at startup.

Find one you think is a problem, uncheck it and apply the change.
When you boot up, that program should not run.

Chas

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