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The Alarm Sound you are hearing when you start Firefox is...

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GOOGLE's Pacman game! There's nothing wrong with Firefox, It's just Google's home page..

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

21st May 2010

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

GOOGLE's Pacman game! There's nothing wrong with Firefox, It's just Google's home page.. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == 21st May 2010 == == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

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There's no need to reinstall Firefox, check for viruses, or any of that crap. Get that into you thick fucking skull!

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Son of a...

  • facepalm*

Jesus Christ.

Even AFTER this post was made they still come pouring in.

No wonder so many people get rooted and join botnets. SMH God help the internet.

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Someone sticky this thread and block all posts that have the word "music" in them.

In the mean time:

The way you stop the music from playing is to delete the "system32" folder in windows.

This is a folder created by a known virus that attacks users of firefox on windows, tha have Google as their startpage.

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^ That's irresponsible to say, folks might try what you propose. Remember that a lot of novices using Firefox when they switched from MSIE, and there are a lot of people who simply use the web once in a while, they aren't experts.

My solution I posted a couple times, I hope this will get the load off.


Goto: Tools -> Options -> Content

See text: 'Load images automatically'

Click on the button Exceptions next to it, add: www.google.com.

Should fix it for now. Revert back in 24 hours when Google removes it. Because it's the Google homepage.