Thats it, literally every time I type an individual clown horn sound plays, I know it has to be a virus but what could it be exactly and how do I fix it.

pls help its making me mad

btw my laptop is a lenovo legion 5 15IMH05 if it helps

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    1 year ago

    Get system internals, then use autoruns to turn off any sus startup programs until the honk is gone on restart.

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    1 year ago

    would you by any chance be running AWSoundCenter?

    there was a post about 2 years ago with very similar symptoms.and the culprit was AWSC

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    1 year ago

    you say that it’s only happening in Opera GX, maybe you (or someone else) installed a “GX Mod”? I personally haven’t used GX in a while but I’d bet you could find the GX Mod settings if you search in the browser settings.

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    1 year ago

    Do you have any friends who might be trying to prank you? Maybe people who play Spacestation 13 too much.

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    1 year ago

    Can you open the volume mixer (just search how to open volume mixer and your version of windows).

    Type and see what is making the sound.

    If it’s a virus or malware search Malwarebytes and scan.

    If it’s not, you might be able to find it in the Task Manager and stop it from starting up. Maybe it’s just a prank program someone put on there.

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      1 year ago

      the volume mixer said the sound came from the general volume, malwarebytes said i was clean and my task manager has to much shit for me to go through it rn but ill check it thoroughly sometime

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      1 year ago

      if you enter enough sketchy porn sites i guess one would give you the same virtual std it gave me. Besides that i dunno

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    1 year ago

    Its a gx mod in opera gx. Just uninstall it and you should be good to go. Friend uses it for some reason so i know its a gx mod

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    1 year ago

    this made my day. the visceral amount of clown horn noises erupting into a symphony as you type really fast gave me a real belly laugh

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    1 year ago

    You can change the typing sound in operagx I suspect it got changed somehow but you can definitely change it back

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    1 year ago

    This is a damn unicorn. Looks like you need to go under Settings>Devices>Typing then disable Play sounds as I type.

    But dang man I want a video of this awesome prank someone’s played on you.

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      1 year ago

      But dang man I want a video of this awesome prank someone’s played on you.

      Haha, came here to ask for a video!

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      1 year ago

      The last Opera GX update just turned on the keyboard typing sound again. Had it turned off previously but yesterday the typewriter/clicky sound was back.

      If OP has installed a browser theme it’s possible it came bundled with a clown horn sound. Not sure which insane person would create such a theme, but I am not really surprised.