Hi Tom, Cman. Yes I have DSL filters on all the phones. I'll recheck and make sure someone hasn't removed one of them. I tried to run Ad-Aware right after the tones began and it crashed. Not a good sign. I'll try the other one.
Did you have a cell phone close to the speakers? I had a client a few years back telling me that one of the computers had odd noises comeing through the computer speakers. Went to look at it and saw the speakers were unplugged. Found out they unplugged them BECAUSE of the odd noises but even unplugged the noise came through. I told them this was impossible, of course. A short while later while looking at another computer at the same location, a girl had sat down to use the computer making the odd noises and lo and behold, strange sounds started coming from the UNPLUGGED speakers. So I take a quick look around her desk and noticed her cell phone. Moved it away from the work area and the noise stopped!
Cingular seems to make it happen more than any other type phone. I just switched to them and can't have the phone NEAR my desk or I get all kinds of strange sounds from my speakers!
Quite bizarre. I do keep a Sprint PCS phone just above my speakers, but it's almost always turned off. Don't remember now if it was turned on that evening or now. I suppose I could conduct an experiment and turn it on and set it next to the speakers and see what happens.
I tried that Filehippo spyware software and I'm not convinced that's good anti-spyware. It claimed that I had over 1,500 spyware infections on my pc. But most of them were pc games pre-installed by HP on the computer. I don''t think those are legitimate security threats. I ran Ad-Aware again and found a few trackers, but nothing serious.
Anyway, the dial tones stopped and haven't resumed. Maybe the NSA got their survelillance software working quietly again the way it's supposed to. :-)
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cman
I'd check with Verizon first then run spybot SD
http://filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/
and run through these as well-
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Must-Read-B...-Log-t2852.html
and if you want to you can post there at geekstogo forums
and they will ask for the hijack this log
don't know why it would or could do that with no power though
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Tom Strange
did you put those little filter thingies 'in line' on all of the phones/modem... I'm wondering if that could have anything to do with it...
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Jbarrax
Hi Tom, Cman. Yes I have DSL filters on all the phones. I'll recheck and make sure someone hasn't removed one of them. I tried to run Ad-Aware right after the tones began and it crashed. Not a good sign. I'll try the other one.
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Some of the Ad-Aware beta's will crash, so that may not be an indicator.
Try some of the older stable versions.
http://filehippo.com/download_ad-aware/
Looks like the new is not beta though.
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Did you have a cell phone close to the speakers? I had a client a few years back telling me that one of the computers had odd noises comeing through the computer speakers. Went to look at it and saw the speakers were unplugged. Found out they unplugged them BECAUSE of the odd noises but even unplugged the noise came through. I told them this was impossible, of course. A short while later while looking at another computer at the same location, a girl had sat down to use the computer making the odd noises and lo and behold, strange sounds started coming from the UNPLUGGED speakers. So I take a quick look around her desk and noticed her cell phone. Moved it away from the work area and the noise stopped!
Cingular seems to make it happen more than any other type phone. I just switched to them and can't have the phone NEAR my desk or I get all kinds of strange sounds from my speakers!
Rick
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Tom Strange
that's interesting... Cingular should use that in their ads... Ghosts in the Machine...
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Quite bizarre. I do keep a Sprint PCS phone just above my speakers, but it's almost always turned off. Don't remember now if it was turned on that evening or now. I suppose I could conduct an experiment and turn it on and set it next to the speakers and see what happens.
I tried that Filehippo spyware software and I'm not convinced that's good anti-spyware. It claimed that I had over 1,500 spyware infections on my pc. But most of them were pc games pre-installed by HP on the computer. I don''t think those are legitimate security threats. I ran Ad-Aware again and found a few trackers, but nothing serious.
Anyway, the dial tones stopped and haven't resumed. Maybe the NSA got their survelillance software working quietly again the way it's supposed to. :-)
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Tom Strange
...always a possibility!
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QMSCss
Considering you are no longer using the modem, I would simply uninstall the modem driver, end of problem!
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