"congratulations you won" audio

[JonnyRyall]

Hi

For some reason I keep hearing a "congratulations you won" audio message.
I first thought it was some website with an ad, but the pages that were open at the time didn't show anything like that.

It happened a couple of times when I was using VLC and once when just using Safari.

I have a Macbook version 10.5.8

I have seen other mentions of this on different forums that seem to be just for Windows PC's but nothing relating to Macs...

Any ideas how I can stop it?

Much obliged...

Jonny

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Hi

For some reason I keep hearing a "congratulations you won" audio message.
I first thought it was some website with an ad, but the pages that were open at the time didn't show anything like that.

It happened a couple of times when I was using VLC and once when just using Safari.

I have a Macbook version 10.5.8

I have seen other mentions of this on different forums that seem to be just for Windows PC's but nothing relating to Macs...

Any ideas how I can stop it?

Much obliged...

Jonny

Likely its either a dashboard app (that always seems to be the case when people report music they dont know the source of) or possibly a 'pop under' in the browser. Can you pin down when it happens? Is a browser always open?

 

[JonnyRyall]

Likely its either a dashboard app (that always seems to be the case when people report music they dont know the source of) or possibly a 'pop under' in the browser. Can you pin down when it happens? Is a browser always open?

Yes, Safari has always been open.

It did happen once when I was using the Translator App in the dashboard.
It's always the same "congratulations you won" message, which bares no resemblance to anything in a browser or the translator...

 

[CylonGlitch]

Well more importantly, what did you win?

 

[JonnyRyall]

Well more importantly, what did you win?

Only a free, random audio clip that says, "congratulations you won"...

 

[eawmp1]

Only a free, random audio clip that says, "congratulations you won"...

Sounds like you lost, to me.

 

[rhysmorgan]

Sounds like you lost, to me.

Damn you!
I lost the game!!!

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Yes, Safari has always been open.

It did happen once when I was using the Translator App in the dashboard.
It's always the same "congratulations you won" message, which bares no resemblance to anything in a browser or the translator...

Does it happen often enough that if you kill the translator dashboard app you'll quickly know if that was it?

 

[JonnyRyall]

Does it happen often enough that if you kill the translator dashboard app you'll quickly know if that was it?

No. It has been happening only once or twice a day.
And it only started this weekend, I have no new dashboard apps and haven't done anything different to normal...