Strange Beeps

I went to fix a guys computer that runs his own APA league franchise. He had a few hundred pieces of spyware and about 15 various virus's. The virus's were the following strains:

Bloodhound.W32.EP
BackDoor.Generic.816
Trojan.Lowzones.107
Trojan.Lowzones.108
Trojan.Lowzones.109
Exploit.Anifile

I was able to remove the bloodhound virus and then uninstalled Norton antivirus 2003 and upgraded to 2005 (since his subscription ran out). Norton 2005 then took care of the remaining ones.

Here's the weird part: Everytime an anti-virus scanner hits this one folder named FMSAPA the computer speaker beeps constantly with a ambulance type constant sound. High pitch beep, low pitch beep, High pitch beep, low pitch beep etc. This occurs until that folder has been completely scanned. When he uses the program that accesses that same directory it occurs as well. I used several different free virus scanners besides Norton (5 total) and each produce the same results.

What the heck does the siren type beeping mean. I familiar with the beep codes on POST but not once Windows is loaded and running fine. The beeping does stop after that folder is by passed.

Any ideas????

Is it the PC speaker that's beeping, or the computer speakers? The siren-type sound from the PC speaker usually means that the CPU is overheating. That is really the only thing I could even come close to thinking this might be. However, that doesn't really fit at all with what's going on. :shrug:

Can't a virus do stuff like that? Perhaps there's something Norton missed. Try Hijack This!.

sounds like a virus to me, or maybe ix is right in the overheating part, but seems like a weird situation for an over heat to me. clean the insides out once, run hijack this! and maybe even a registry cleaner once

with that many viruses I wouldn't even think of doing removals/cleaning. Probably better off doing a fresh install, and getting a proper/working anti-virus program installed.

Do a scan for viruses and spyware outside of Windows (with, say, http://www.ubcd4win.com/ ), and if that doesn't work, do what liggyman said.

Yes the beeping is coming from the small little PC speaker at the front of the case. I ran a virus scanner outside of Windows and it reported a clean bill of health. This is the strangest thing I've ever encountered. Even a spyware scan of that directory causes the beeping. Any scan basically. I will get hijack this and will report the logs. Thanks for the suggestions.