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IE7 Confused
Having a bit of an odd problem at the moment
XP (SP3 - I know!!)
Normal web browser Firefox
AV McAfee
I noticed that the system has been slow for a couple of days and from time to time I'm getting pop up music and websites usually gaming sites. Looking in task manager I notice that
is running and taking up a lot of cpu usage.
Ran an AV scan, down loaded and ran spyware blaster, went into IE and cleared all caches, in processes I have ended the above process only for it to restart after a few seconds.
Earlier I had the message that IE has experienced a problem & needs to close.
Any suggestions?
XP (SP3 - I know!!)
Normal web browser Firefox
AV McAfee
I noticed that the system has been slow for a couple of days and from time to time I'm getting pop up music and websites usually gaming sites. Looking in task manager I notice that
iexplore.exe SYSTEM
Ran an AV scan, down loaded and ran spyware blaster, went into IE and cleared all caches, in processes I have ended the above process only for it to restart after a few seconds.
Earlier I had the message that IE has experienced a problem & needs to close.
Any suggestions?
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Not quite clear from your post why IE7 is running at all, but maybe use 'hijack this' and have a look for nasties?
http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...-analyser.html
http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...-analyser.html
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Not quite clear from your post why IE7 is running at all
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You could try downloading Process explorer from Process Explorer and when you install it select the option to open using ctrl alt del. It's a much better tool than the MS one. to kill a process right click and select kill process.
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Methinks Frostbite was right
Found the above file, another named
and another
had mysteriously appeared on my hard drive on Sunday afternoon.
Was also getting warnings from AV about a Trojan (it had deleted some others)
deleted all the above from the hard drive and all seems (fingers crossed) OK
Found the above file, another named
realplay.exe
Ms2b67gi
Was also getting warnings from AV about a Trojan (it had deleted some others)
deleted all the above from the hard drive and all seems (fingers crossed) OK
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Realplay.exe is the systray program applet for real player which is a reasonable useless piece of software but not nasty, it's needed to play video clips from sites like the BBC (there are better alternitives)
What the other thing is I've no idea.
What the other thing is I've no idea.
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Had a few trojan attacks this evening, AV is killing them!! Heightened the firewall now as well
The Ms2 one is definitely showing as a trojan on AV but needs killed in processes before manual removal.
The interesting one with the realplay was it was briefly appearing in processes everytime the iexplore process restarted. So I though I might as well get rid.
The Ms2 one is definitely showing as a trojan on AV but needs killed in processes before manual removal.
The interesting one with the realplay was it was briefly appearing in processes everytime the iexplore process restarted. So I though I might as well get rid.
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Thanks for that, installed and run.
Looks as though my old fashioned detecting found all but 1 file - but it only takes one left to cause further problems
Thanks for that, installed and run.
Looks as though my old fashioned detecting found all but 1 file - but it only takes one left to cause further problems