Whirring, buzzing sound coming from my computer.

Hi all:
I have a four-year-old machine, and this buzzing sound is the same one I've gotten before when I first stick a DVD or CD in and the computer reads it. Now, however, it happens whenever I watch videos online (through Firefox or Safari) or when I go to certain websites that contain flash animation ads.
It is basically a loud (and annoying!) whirring, buzzing noise that sounds like the fan is working overdrive. If you put your hand at the back of the computer you can feel air blowing out, and if you put it underneath you can feel that the computer is actually abnormally hot.
I took it to the Apple store, they did a full scan of the hardware and said that nothing was wrong, and they also updated my system from 10.3 to 10.4.11 (Tiger). I thought that might make it better, but now it's become even worse, getting to the point where practically any website I go to sets it off at least for a few seconds, until I get out of the website and it starts to calm down again. Occasionally it goes to sleep entirely, and I have to wait a few seconds before waking it up by pressing the Spacebar.
I have Norton Antivirus and thought it might have something to do with that, so I disabled the program that automatically scans videos as they stream into your computer, but the sound is still happening.
Has anyone out there experienced this problem and dealt with it successfully? I thank you in advance for your help!

So I have a bit of an update (again). I blocked the Flash ads as requested, which is nice because I don't have to look at them anymore, but otherwise does not seem to have helped.
Now, when I go into pretty much ANY website at all, the computer starts making the noise no matter what. As soon as I click a link or switch a page, it again makes the noise.
I'm beginning to despair of ever finding a cure for this, seeing as I took it to the very people who made the thing and they couldn't even identify the problem
Thanks for trying to help, though. If you've got any other suggestions, please do pass them along. Much obliged.

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