- Two iexplorer running in background, can't be shut off
- Posted by gutterball on October 3rd, 2005
When my computer boots up, I bring up the task manager and it shows two
copies of iexplore.exe (all lower case) running in the background. I don't
use iexplorer for my web browser, haven't used it for months, yet the
processes just started showing up last week. They're using 30,000 k and about
5,000 k, and when I try ending the processes, they both come right back.
I've read that if there's a folder in Win32 called iexplore...then it's a
virus, but I don't see anything there, plus I've run Spybot and my AVG and
nothing turns up.
Can anyone make a suggestion?
- Posted by Mark Dormer on October 3rd, 2005
Find out what is loading at startup/login
Click Start - Run
Type msconfig and press enter
Can you se any instances of iexplore being loaded?
If so you can disable them.
If your not sure then
Click Start - Run
Type msinfo32 and press enter
The System Information application will open.
Under Software Enviroment, select Startup Programs
Click File-Export
Save the file and post it here.
Regards
Mark Dormer
"gutterball" <gutterball@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22EC64E6-272F-41B0-9F3E-5699D0FFC225@microsoft.com...
> When my computer boots up, I bring up the task manager and it shows two
> copies of iexplore.exe (all lower case) running in the background. I
> don't
> use iexplorer for my web browser, haven't used it for months, yet the
> processes just started showing up last week. They're using 30,000 k and
> about
> 5,000 k, and when I try ending the processes, they both come right back.
>
> I've read that if there's a folder in Win32 called iexplore...then it's a
> virus, but I don't see anything there, plus I've run Spybot and my AVG and
> nothing turns up.
>
> Can anyone make a suggestion?
- Posted by gutterball on October 3rd, 2005
"Mark Dormer" wrote:
> Find out what is loading at startup/login
> Click Start - Run
> Type msconfig and press enter
> Can you se any instances of iexplore being loaded?
> If so you can disable them.
>
> If your not sure then
>
> Click Start - Run
> Type msinfo32 and press enter
> The System Information application will open.
>
> Under Software Enviroment, select Startup Programs
> Click File-Export
> Save the file and post it here.
>
> Regards
> Mark Dormer
Sorry, I should have said that I already ran msconfig and it doesn't show up
on startup.
-Ward Donovan
- Posted by gutterball on October 10th, 2005
With the information I've given you, can anyone else recommend a solution or
tell me what's happening?
