Very Strange Voices

Hi everyone :cool:

Right here is the situation : As my computer is in the middle of the house (hallway, don't ask why) I don not have sounds turned on very much. I downloaded a couple of mp3's one day and wanted to listen to them before burning them to a cd. So I plug my headphones in and I can hear voices a man speaks, I'm not sure what he said then, very clearly he says "****!" Then the voices stoped. How is this happening, is there some kind of trojan or something that can make you talk out of the victim's speakers? I've never heard of one myself, but anyways. If it was a trojan causing this, I don't know how it got there coz I run all the usual firewalls/antivirus stuff.

Any explaination would be nice :) Thanks

ehm.. wow..
this is creapy ;)

this sounds like the X-files.
Voices of the dead live in my puter....

Try using a trojan searching program, however I don't think that's the case...

Did you have any websites up?
Or even some pop-up ads that we're minimized?
Or Kazaa running?

I had something similar happen to me, but it was a pop-up ad talking...

Do you use a modem to connect to the Internet? If so, do you also have it set-up to 'auto-answer' on incoming calls?


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ermmm, I had kazaa running but nothing else...

thanks =)

Yeah, one time I had Kazaa minimized and kept hearing a female voice while one of my songs was playing.....It turned out to be a virtual Cameron Diaz on the front screen of the Kazaa application, talking about some sort of ecological awareness or whatever. It really creeped me out though, not knowing what it was.

K, when your computer starts cussing at you, it's time to turn it off... I think you were hallucinating (sp), bro. ;)

Thanks GreekGoddess, 'spose that might of been it but I wouldn't of thought they would have said "sh*t" on the front page of kazaa, although I might be wrong... anyone know if they use swear words on the front page of kazaa like that?

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I can hear people talking on my phone, through my computer all the time. I bet thats what it was. Check to see if one of your line ins or something or speakerphone volume is up. It was prolly a roomate or someone in the house on the phone. If you don't live with anyone then i suggest you call a priest and start hoarding holy water. Its gunna be a long nite for you.

No, it didn't say "****"....
It spoke about the problems with some eco system or some sorts, don't remember much since it was about a month ago or so...

Do you remember anything else of what the guy said?

It could have been a porn pop-up ad, minimized and talking...?

Sorry, so many replies came in to this thread all at once =) I missed a couple of questions...

DjM : I use a modem for the internet but I don't have set for auto - answer or anything, I don't think it's actually possible on my phone line. Though I'm not sure, If I had received a phone call, would a pop-up or something not come up or something in the systray?

jehnx : I don't think so =) I'd just got up, I wasn't tired or anything.

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[edited for crap typing lol.]

Just a note: I don't have any answering type service or anything installed on my comp, but i can still here the voices on it. Try enableing the speakerphone in the advanced controls of the master volume program and turn up all the volumes. Then put on your headphones, and make a call. See what happens

Yea, your right, I am likely off track on the modem thing, unless, somehow you picked a freaky connection that day. I think Tiger & GG are likely on the right track.


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lol i htink it may be some freak think with frequencies :)...but it probably is as GG said some banner or so

I think xmaddness is on to the right answer. You're probably picking up an occasional radio wave through your speaker. It's pretty common in high RF zones. You may just be picking up everything bleeding over from a very frequency, so you're only catching bits and pieces. I get that occasionally when this security guard drives bye. Weird stuff. Scares the hell out of me late at night. :D

either RF interference as mentioned above or mabee its the MP3s. if you reply them do they have the voice again? mabee somebody made an MP3 recording with the mic of his computer against his radio and realised that he was talking while it was recording......? you probly already thought of that tho or atleast would have listened to the MP3 again so thats probly not it.......hmmmmmm freeky tho

yeah, RFs can cause some weird stuff, like audio bugs tend to cause snow on televisions. I had one just as weird happen to me, I was out in my garage playing guitar, when I heard somone talking on my amp, and there was no way anyone was hooked up with a microphone, cause I only have one input on it and I was using it. Turns out somehow it was picking up a German radio station.

Sub7 can do that. I'm sure otehr trojans can too.
<joke>Maybe, your just skitizfrenic. lol j/k</joke>
Yeah, those kazaa voices freaked me out too when I didn't know what they were.

Prankster, did you ever figure out what it was?

What you have heard is a sort of disturbance caused by your equipment, you can listen sometimes to radio stations.
In Holland the Philips monitors with built in speakers sometimes (out of nowhere) start picking AM radio stations. It freaks out some people.
I had the same thing with my Labtec equipment few years back.

Nothing to worry about :)

Pretty spooky~! Maybe your computer is haunted? j/k

Something similiar happened to me. Whenever i would pick up my phone i would hear voices and even some weird mexican music playing at times! lol

i used to get the mexican radio playing faintly on my phone when i had my old answering machine ..weird stuff.. i have also gotten various stations picked up in my guitar amp as well..i wouldnt worry about it............unless you are wanted by the feds and then its probaly something to be very worried about! quick! go bury your harddrive in a hole in your backyard! (haha j/k)

I had the same problem as many other people, with voices in the background of my phones (only certain phones picked it up, though, which I thought was strange). But I digress. First thing I did was plug one of the hyper-sensitive phones into my phone box at the side of the house to ensure that the noise was coming from the outside, rather than some interference within my house. The voices were there, so I ended up jury-rigging a filter (Radio Shack's filter sucked, so I "fixed" it. hehe) and the voices disappeared. I've created similar set ups for friends who have the same problem now. Works like a charm!

AJ

PS: The voices ended up being a mixture of radio and television signals. Looks like someone did some poor splicing and shielding jobs somewhere along the pipe. At least one of my neighbors has the same problem.