Fundamentalist, is it a standard XP sound?, I dont use XP so I dont know them. Have you worked out when you get the sound??

yes its standard. i always have the sound on and have had no probs in the past - the sound comes on a completely random basis

F, have you got adaware and/or (preferably both) installed? if so run them and see if its ad related, if not download them update the files and run them.

spaceman - thanks for that - can you now explain in english

fundy its not a humming is it , like the fan sound.have you played a pc game on it,and the noise stops.

No Dave its not - i know what the fan sounds like as I have had them replaced already!!! Turns out they had got blocked with cat hair and overheated

OK lots of sites install tracking stuff on your PC, these 2 products hunt it down and remove it, most of it isnt a problem but some could be. Its best to not have it.

I use both of them but one is probably OK most of the time, adaware is the easiest to use so lets start with that.

Download it from here :-http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/#free

then install it by running the downloaded file. Then run it and Check for updates, when the update hgas completed do a scan, this will take a few minutes and will rpobably come up with several items. I always select all of them and delete them but if you are worried about that you can quareantine them.

BUT..... I am not sure the creaking is caused by this, scanning for adware is good practise and wont do any harm.

Does anyone else use your PC? could they install stuff on it?? kids for example?

Spaceman

many thanks.

no i dont have kids so they havent installed anything but it turns out the missus has put aol instant messenger on it. I am going to uninstall and see if its that.

I will download and run the adaware as well

F, I juste checked AIM (AOL messenger) and I am pretty sure that where its from, it has a creaking sound when a buddy logs on.

Spaceman

many thanks for that and all your help with this - a learning experience for me.

F, no problem.

Spaceman - I've used adaware for ages and it's free but yesterday I was told about Spysweeper by my IT pal. He's gone over to it www.webroot.com - only free for 30 days but it found loads of cr*p that adaware missed.

Thought you might find it useful.

Regards

R

CS, webroot software is good but I dont think spysweeper is the best, Spybot S&D along with Adaware are better and free at the moment. I use Windows Washer from Webroot and its a fine program, spysweeper will probably end up being good.

hello is there any body there,i have got a problem. i have nortons a/v 2004,today a ran a check and have found that i have something called, dialer money tree,and i cant seem to delete it. i have never had any problems before,i tried to follow what they said,,but got lost,,,,,,,,,,any advice.it said there was a security alert.is there any way i can sort this out.

dd. norton should remove it, have a look at the following page, make sure your definitions are updated.http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/dialer.moneytree.html

spaceman,i`ve ran nortons 5 times now,done all the updates,and it seems that i can`t delete it,but i can exclued it or something.i have changed my settings from manual to auto, on scan for viruses,,,fingers crossed,ps i think i have just updated the definitions.is it serious spaceman because i have never had a problem before.off to bed now i will let it run allnight,cheers.dd

hung around still no better,off to bed for sure.

dd, do you use dialup or broadband ?

dd, apparently moneytree can be manually removed :-

Open the 'Downloaded Program Files' folder (which can be found in the Windows folder), and delete the entry for 'NSUpdateLiteCtrl Class' (NSUpdate variant) or 'MoneyTree Dialer' (UniDist variant).

spaceman, dial up, as i cant get broadband yet.i must of tried with nortons 6 times no joy.
they dont make it easy to find where your going,,,,,,,unless your a wizz kid,i`am not.
how do i get to the windows folder.