

Thank you very much for your time and assistance! If I should post this thread in the Drivers Forum, please advise. I don't believe that the sound problem stems from a virus, but my hunch is that it was due to RealPlayer messing with my drivers. I've posted my logs in the Highjack This Log forum and am waiting for assistance with my viruses. Subsequent tests using software recommended by this site have unearthed a few other problems. While seeking information on the internet for the sound problem I came across this website and read some threads instructing people to run various adware and virus programs and I ran my own AVG program and discovered that I had a virus (). I have a CreativeBlaster Audio PCI 128D sound card. While attempting to fix the problem on my own I may have reinstalled the wrong CreativeBlaster drivers (out of ignorance), but I'm not sure. I also did a system restore to several days before I began using the RealPlayer but it did not resolve the problem. All devices say they are working properly. My first steps to resolve this included checking my speakers, volume controls, running Windows sound tests and checking the device manager, where no yellow or red alerts appear. Up until that time I still had system sounds, could use Windows Media Player and could watch vidoes without problem. My no sound problem seemed to develop shortly after I began to use RealPlayer last week to watch some live feeds.
