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Help! IEXPLORE.EXE 100%
Name: samus Date: July 17, 2006 at 03:03:44 Pacific OS: XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: celeron 768 ram
Comment:
I am having a problem with IE, IEXPLORE.exe is using 100% CPU on my machine. I have searched for IEXPLORE.exe files and found one in C:/Windows/Prefetch folder and deleted it, but it came back after restart. Any advise? Also my Windows firewall keeps disabling after restart? Any help much appreciated
Name: XpUser4Real Date: July 17, 2006 at 10:01:39 Pacific
Reply:
You could start by downloading Stinger and running it. What spyware progs and online scans have you done? Also what are you using for your AV and firewall?
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 2
Name: samus Date: July 17, 2006 at 17:28:12 Pacific
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I have used Spybot to scan my pc and also use AVG Anti Virus and the Windows XP firewall. Havent done any online scans - what are the best ones? Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real Date: July 18, 2006 at 10:05:34 Pacific
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Are you also immunizing your PC with Spybot S&D? Spybot is also a great addition as well as Adaware SE The best online scans from what I've seen are: Housecall Kaspersky Ewido Panda
A few good cleaners to use before your scans are ATF-Cleaner and CrapCleaner, they will flush your caches, cookies etc and it really speeds up your scans.
If your problem keeps recurring, then you may want to disable System restore, scan, then, if all is well restart system restore again.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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