Computer started saying stuff through speakers

Totally strange. Yesterday, while surfing (I believe I was using firefox, not ie7), I tried to write a search term in my google home page and it didn't work. A few seconds later, my computer 'said' "retribution". I started searching for trojans/viruses that speak to you... and when I hit the spacebar a bit later, my computer said "Vacuous" (every time I hit the space bar for about a minute).

Well, I ran trend micro house call, gonna dl ad aware and run that, ran spybot sd, running Symantec corporate edition..... found absolutely nothing (cookies... nothing important though). Checked out my BHOs in spybot, nothing unusual. Ran netstat -a ... not much, a couple IPs from some websites etc....

I thought the whole space bar sayin "Vacuous" thing was pretty humorous, and retribution is a great word, just wonder if anyone has run across something similar yet... Ohh, I was runnin mediacoder in the background, but that shouldn't matter, didn't seem like a hardware (heat) issue. It definitely wasn't microsoft narrator's regular voice, and i didn't see the (narrator) process runnin anyways.

So. Is there some key combination I inadvertently hit, some virus or trojan, or some spastic windows xp home stuff?

Gonna search my comp for vacuous and retribution. Maybe my registry. See if I can find it. Ohh, and the adaware scan. Sheesh.

Anyways, as I haven't set up my sig yet:

Dell Vostro 1500 2.0 ghz 2meg cache Core 2 Duo 7250 w/ 2gigs 667 ram and 8600m GT 256 Runnin XP home until I purchase a pro or media center upgrade... maybe.

 

yea, some kind of virus.... maybe its an undetected virus of some sort.....

 

What site were you surfing? Some sites have audio with visual controls and/or Ad not visible.

 

XP does have a text to speech feature built in. Maybe you activated it somehow...

 

I don't think there is any virus threat. I think it's just something off a website.

 

He was on the Google homepage on Firefox. He was putting text in the search box.

 

Good freakin joke!

 

Well then this is very odd.

 

It is almost Halloween, so you just never know what's going to happen.

 

I'm going to resist saying it was the bogyman and say that i think he should just check his ff extensions, i know there are a couple of extensions out there that do strange things with ff as a prank. I almost did it to my friend Robert but he got grounded before i could install them.

 

Trick or Treat?

 

No, a little worse than that.

 

Calvin might be right about the extensions idea... Haven't had any "problems" since... sheesh. Don't remember whether I was using ie7 or firefox...

And it could have been the wine I drank. I am helping my grandfather recover from a heart valve replacement at my uncle's place for a few months. We opened a bottle of wine that my cousin's uncle Jack made. I drank most of it and a few beers.... who knows. Maybe it was special wine....

Anyways... Hitting the spacebar and hearing the word vacuous is pretty funny... as long as it isn't something that's gonna roxor my comp. Wonder if it was mediacoder (runnin in the background)? Maybe I was using IE7, and the penguin crowd put some code in it to mess with IE (MS) users. Ya know they require firefox to run setup (change config options, etc.).

 

Maybe you're going crazy and hearing things!

 

I think it was the wine.

 

Well... it hasn't happened since the I drank the home brewed vino.... soooo...

 

Sounds like normal Windows operating procedure to me.

yep, it's all just Windows.

 

LOL...Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish!

 

It's the ghost in the machine.

 

haha sounds like a fun Virus

Download, and try Security Task Manager. It will show some processes that are not shown by the regulat Windows Task Manager, will give you the option to 'google' a specific process, and stop it, and block it. If it's not able to stop, and block it, at least you will know what the process name is, and you can use google to see how to get rid of it..

 

Did a whole bunch o' scans. Have process exploder ; codestuff starter to check out the procs... sooooooooo... blargh.

I think I was hallucinamatin...

 

At least your computer didn't start an argument with you.

 

AIM has ads that speak

 

Yeah, if it wasn't gettin retribution on my sorry 4$$ for being vacuous. No tellin whether teh compzor wuzn't pickin a fight like my girlfriend... generally in the latter case, i get tricked into saying something that I know I shouldn't. Not that I am not willing....

So, you have any clue if I can play oblivion on this thing er wut?

 

You can play oblivion on any computer that has the supported OS. What exactly do you mean?