I have seeing weird slow down of my system. I am observing more than 1 image name of iexplore.exe open when I look into the Windows Task Manager. It's taxing my CPU.
How many should be open??
I am unsure if this is related..but here goes...I got 3 Trojans, which NAV2003 promptly deleted (I scanned later and found no viruses). Then my AOL icon in the system tray at some point later turned from the blue symbol, to the Microsoft white window w/blue title bar in the System tray on the left. I was having problems w/NAV maintaining the correct date when updated w/new definitions, so I removed it, and reinstalled. Then for some unknown reason there were 45 iexplore.exe that I found open in the Windows Task Manager. I restarted my computer, they disappeared....Now things "SEEM" OK, but I found 3 more iexplore.exe w/out doing anythign but opening Firefox w/one window.
Btw my drive isn't fragmented beyond 3%, and out of 160gigs, there is 30gigs available.
Now I have TEN iexplore.exe open in the Task Manager..what the hell is going on???
I'd like to add that when I try and open Internet Explorer, it opens, freezes completely, and then tries to connect to the following 64.236.16.52 then I get more explore.exe
Any ideas?
How many should be open??
I am unsure if this is related..but here goes...I got 3 Trojans, which NAV2003 promptly deleted (I scanned later and found no viruses). Then my AOL icon in the system tray at some point later turned from the blue symbol, to the Microsoft white window w/blue title bar in the System tray on the left. I was having problems w/NAV maintaining the correct date when updated w/new definitions, so I removed it, and reinstalled. Then for some unknown reason there were 45 iexplore.exe that I found open in the Windows Task Manager. I restarted my computer, they disappeared....Now things "SEEM" OK, but I found 3 more iexplore.exe w/out doing anythign but opening Firefox w/one window.
Btw my drive isn't fragmented beyond 3%, and out of 160gigs, there is 30gigs available.
Now I have TEN iexplore.exe open in the Task Manager..what the hell is going on???
I'd like to add that when I try and open Internet Explorer, it opens, freezes completely, and then tries to connect to the following 64.236.16.52 then I get more explore.exe
Any ideas?
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