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clicking whilst surfing !!!!
Name: adamthepostie Date: June 4, 2005 at 05:43:53 Pacific OS: win 98 se CPU/Ram: 500MHz/256Mb
Comment:
when i am surfing the net i sometimes hear a series of "clicks" (7 or 8 in very short succession)coming from the speakers,a few times my pc has crashed because of them! what does this mean and why is it doing it??? please help as it is driving me crazy....thanks
Name: T-R-A Date: June 4, 2005 at 08:16:05 Pacific
Reply:
Pop-up's (or perhaps pop-unders) can cause them, or perhaps redirects to other locations. Spyware may be causing the redirects; visit the security forum for advice. If it's pop-ups/unders, switch to Firefox and disable them.
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Response Number 2
Name: betty Date: June 8, 2005 at 16:36:33 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think so as I hear clicks to when I'm on the net and I hear clicks also and I have a good spyware program on my machine. I get this on my Windows 98 and Windows ME machine. It's something else. I hear the clicks whenever I go from site to site.
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