Scruffy Eagle
June 11th 04, 09:11 PM
Spottedfeather > wrote in message
...
> There's a site, http://www.americanmusicchannel.com. You
> can go there and watch dozens of different country music
> videos. I tried to play a video and it messed up. First,
> the video played. Then, it froze and I had to restart my
> computer. Now when I try to play a video, it shows the
> video but there's no sound. The site, on my computer
> anyways, uses Windows Media Player to show the
> videos....if that helps any.
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BEWARE JAVASCRIPT!
It sounds as if automated scripting from the music website has damage your
Media Player; that, the website was doing something heavily invasive to raid
your system for data - perhaps, attempting to install spyware. This is also
probably the cause of you seeing that "Volume State" in the toolbar during
startup. As a starting point of coping, I'd suggest getting yourself some
freeware: "Spybot Search & Destroy" will find most of the current spyware,
and give you the chance to remove it. "Stinger" is an excellent anti-virus
program, and is free. It has the virus definitions contained internally, and
you have to periodically update it by downloading new copies. But - it found
a virus on my system which a continuously updated Norton's Antivirus 2000
program had missed for 2 years. Xteq X-Setup is an excellent system settings
tweaking utility. It only recently turned into shareware (inexpensive), and
previous version that were freeware are still easily available online - you
can use it to inspect & tweak what gets started up during the boot-up
process. After doing all that, you'll probably end up uninstalling and then
re-installing your Windows Media Player - but, do it after, not before those
other things.
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aren't 'lifestyle choices'. They're contagious social
diseases; psychiatric illnesses; disfunctions of the
reproductive systems. If left unchecked and
untreated, they result in conflict and suffering.
If condoned and promoted, they constitute a
mortal threat to the survival of civilization."
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...
> There's a site, http://www.americanmusicchannel.com. You
> can go there and watch dozens of different country music
> videos. I tried to play a video and it messed up. First,
> the video played. Then, it froze and I had to restart my
> computer. Now when I try to play a video, it shows the
> video but there's no sound. The site, on my computer
> anyways, uses Windows Media Player to show the
> videos....if that helps any.
==============================
BEWARE JAVASCRIPT!
It sounds as if automated scripting from the music website has damage your
Media Player; that, the website was doing something heavily invasive to raid
your system for data - perhaps, attempting to install spyware. This is also
probably the cause of you seeing that "Volume State" in the toolbar during
startup. As a starting point of coping, I'd suggest getting yourself some
freeware: "Spybot Search & Destroy" will find most of the current spyware,
and give you the chance to remove it. "Stinger" is an excellent anti-virus
program, and is free. It has the virus definitions contained internally, and
you have to periodically update it by downloading new copies. But - it found
a virus on my system which a continuously updated Norton's Antivirus 2000
program had missed for 2 years. Xteq X-Setup is an excellent system settings
tweaking utility. It only recently turned into shareware (inexpensive), and
previous version that were freeware are still easily available online - you
can use it to inspect & tweak what gets started up during the boot-up
process. After doing all that, you'll probably end up uninstalling and then
re-installing your Windows Media Player - but, do it after, not before those
other things.
==============================
"Feminism, Pedophilia, & Homosexuality - these
aren't 'lifestyle choices'. They're contagious social
diseases; psychiatric illnesses; disfunctions of the
reproductive systems. If left unchecked and
untreated, they result in conflict and suffering.
If condoned and promoted, they constitute a
mortal threat to the survival of civilization."
--- Storm Crow ---
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Scruffy Eagle
http://scruffyeagle.com
email _me @ scruffyeagle.com
(To use address, remove "_me" & spaces.)
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