The past week, my system's volume keeps getting turned off and not by me. I usually don't notice it until I try to play a song or video and there is no sound. Now that I am aware it is happening, I check at boot up and it is always turned off. But now, at boot up, when I check itf, I move the slider back up but it slides back down again. Over and over again I move the volume slider up and it slides right back down again like it is fighting me. Then, after a few minutes of this tug o war, I can slid it up and it stays. Somethings up I know but I can't locate the problem. System mechanic recently found a keylogger on my system and removed it. And Avast found a trojan in real time and isolated it about a week ago. Put it in the chest and I deleted it. But I always run scans with spybot and adware and they always come up clean. Avast Anti Virus software is running and so it Spyware blaster and Spyguard. Plus nolop whatever. Now I have Zone Alarm firewall. I mean geez. What more do they want from me? :) Anyhow, any information on this would be appreciated. Thanks. http://nowspeak.tripod.com http://janda26.tripod.com

AngelinaR, SWAG, sounds like a trojan to me. Maybe you need to use a different scanner? Try A² @: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4... Things are in a constant state of flux as new threats appear all the time so be sure to update before running. HTH. Ed in Texas.

Thanks Ed. I'll head over there right now. http://nowspeak.tripod.com http://janda26.tripod.com

As a follow up, the Asquare scan found something. A folder that was recreated in my program files that I deleted a few weeks ago. It's a software I uninstalled a few weeks. Unfortunately I only just found out it is known to have spy/malware. It's called Torrent101. Anyhow, Asquare found the folder and I deleted it. I'll have to see if it recreates itself again at boot up. Maybe be the source of the problem. Thanks again. http://nowspeak.tripod.com http://janda26.tripod.com