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Old 12-07-2008, 00:01   #11616
alt3rn1ty
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

Thanks all for the re-assurances and I dont want this to lead off-topic into a virus problem, my curiosity was sparked by it being a BT uninstaller linked with WISE on a cd I received somewhere between the 2006 and 2007 trials (which at the time everyone was blissfully un-aware of)(cant remember exactly when I received it but the CD wont have been updated very often I shouldnt think).
And could this have been a measure by BT to cover any remnant trace of the activities. In which case the cd has evidence.
I remember when joining BT Broadband I felt like they were pushing the installation of the CD a bit too much for my liking, which could have been just to ensure the target audience didnt stuff up the installation of the HomeHub, but it turned me away from keeping any part of it on the computer, apart from the fact which I concur.... it was mostly crap. Suspicious old me, but right now I think we ought to be.
EDIT: I wonder how many of those problems we just googled fall in the same time period.

Edit2: @ALEX... I have spent a couple of hours tweaking the recording, managed to clean it up a little so that the background noise is not so shrill and the voices come through clearer, and eliminated hum and hiss, but anymore editing using my software starts to result in loss of parts of the Earls voice, particularly when you try to get rid of the crockery clashing sounds. Those are now slightly quieter, but if your sound engineer friend is still on the case then he will probably do a better job if he has dedicated equipment. For your own benefit, after playing around with various methods and undo-ing, I decided to give WavePad (didnt install the extras which are offered during installation) a try instead of audacity, and using Wavepads 'Remove Noise or Hiss' in the sidebar, followed by an Effects High pass filter at 250hz resulted in the improvements I have over your version. Also you have to Edit Select all before these work I believe