IE error pages / Wav file specs

[scaryjeff]

Hi

A very annoying website or activeX thing seems to have changed my windows error pages so that when I get the 'The page cannot be displayed' error, I am taken to a different page with a search form (and links like 'entertainment', 'computers' etc), and there is a popup advertising some online casino. If anybody has any idea how to stop this from happening, then that would be great.

Also, does anybody know where I can get the specs for the WAV file format? I did a simple calculation, and I cannot work out why WAV files are so big. If a file has 44000 samples per seocnd, uses 16 bits per sample, and is 4 minutes long, then ( 44000 * 16 * 60 * 4 ) / (8 * 1024 * 1024) = 20 megabytes, whereas in reality, a WAV file of this description would be closer to 60 megabytes. Does anybody know why this is the case?

Thanks.

 

[scaryjeff]

In case anybody searches the forum and finds this, you can fix your broken IE error pages by doing a search for files on your machine, named '*.*', but with 'containing text' set according to the name of the site that the broken error pages seem to be from. For example my broken error pages seemed to be advertising 'www.lop.com', so I searched for 'containing text' set to 'lop.com'. This gave me some cookies and a DLL. I renamed the DLL (it was in use and so could not be deleted), and my problem was fixed.

As for the WAV files, I still do not know the answer to my question.

[edit]OK, I am stupid, the reason my calculated values for wav file size are much smaller than expected is that my estimate for the file size (60 megs) is for stereo sound, so my calculated value needed to be doubled to allow for the two channels.[/edit]