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Hi,
Have Windows XP with NAV showing that the trial period expired(incorrectly) and NAV activation needed. WindowsSecurity system also is warning that NAV was deactivated. I also hear every now and then(sometimes a couple of times a minute!) sound warnings(chimes) that I cannot trace where it is coming from. I made all checks the instructions section with CCleaner, Ad-Aware, Spybot and Ewido, no problem seems to be existent. All checks come out clean. Even made a check with NAV in the safe mode(it works there) showing no infection. I made a Hijackthis check and had the attached file. During all this, some pecularities I traced: just before running Spybot, pops up a prompt heading as "Legal Staff", warning if advertisment robots are removed thier host programs will not be used. Also hijackthis check report shows some files being "possibly nasty" but with green/safe sign aside.
I'll appreciate recommendations and comments for getting rid of this...
thanks in advance

Hi there Selimus , welcome to PCHF.

I don't see a single problem in youre log , and that warning of Spybot is also normal.
That is just a warning that means , if you remove all the malware that gets installed along with a program , then that program also might not work anymore.

My best bet atm would be to uninstall and reinstall norton and see if that fixes the problem.

Well thanks Joe5,
Probably the chimes are also sourced from the bad working NAV, will try and report...

Alright , let me know how you get on. :smiley:


PS, maybe abit late , but have you also tried re-entering the serial/registration number?

Hi again Joe5,
I overcame the activation problem by re-installing NAV, but this chimes sound is still there, making me crazy. It first did not seem to associate with anything, no periodical occurance, so I simply switch off the computer sound and don't hear it. I worked a little more on it and found a parallelism with word processing(in Firefox, word, etc, tapping a couple of words is enough) plus mouse movements, but it's really a wonder...

Can you have a look in control panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices/change the sound scheme/sounds tab.

Then find the sound you hear by listening to each "action" that has a speaker next to it. (also check if there aren't two entry's using the same sound)

Select them and click on the > arrow at the bottom to hear them.

And report back what "action" is associated with that sound.

In fact, I had already done it before, and probably missed it. Now did it again and found "Alps pointing device Driver"s "Easy launcher on" and "Typing(with tap enable)" cases were on, with "defsound". Turned them off and nothing comes out. Thanks again. :-)> It was pretty annoying. What is this device anyway? I do not remember installing it.