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iexplore.exe opening in background
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For the past year I've been putting up with this really annoying problem where the process 'iexplore.exe' opens up in the background. It does not cause any slow downs in my computer but is extremely frustrating when I'm in the middle of playing a game and it opens, minimizing to the desktop. I have run multiple virus, spybot and ad-ware scans and although occasionally something is found, this problem never goes away 
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Have you ran MSconfig and removed all unnecessary start up items from the start up tab? That would be the first thing to try if you have already ran AV and spyware software. Which Spyware program did you run? I find that Spybot search and destroy works the best.
I would also download and install a free program called Glary Utilities. Click on the one click maintenance and make sure all the check boxes are check and let it go. Should help your problem!!!
I would also download and install a free program called Glary Utilities. Click on the one click maintenance and make sure all the check boxes are check and let it go. Should help your problem!!!
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What is the page trying to open to in IE
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Originally Posted by gurukid22 
What is the page trying to open to in IE
I should probably also mention that this problem started occurring after curing the virus 'smitfraud' using the program 'SmitFraudFix'.
I am looking into those things mentioned by slasher49er.
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Originally Posted by slash49er
Have you ran MSconfig and removed all unnecessary start up items from the start up tab? That would be the first thing to try if you have already ran AV and spyware software. Which Spyware program did you run? I find that Spybot search and destroy works the best.
I would also download and install a free program called Glary Utilities. Click on the one click maintenance and make sure all the check boxes are check and let it go. Should help your problem!!!
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Originally Posted by Bushoi
For the past year I've been putting up with this really annoying problem where the process 'iexplore.exe' opens up in the background. It does not cause any slow downs in my computer but is extremely frustrating when I'm in the middle of playing a game and it opens, minimizing to the desktop. I have run multiple virus, spybot and ad-ware scans and although occasionally something is found, this problem never goes away
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My Favorites folder is empty. When I try to add something to it, I get a mesage that the locations is unavailable and that is is somwhere else. Help.
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in ms config shut off everything other than your virus scanner.
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So you should check ms config as mentioned above also perform the following steps.
-click start and open run in vista you can type run in the search box then open run and type regedit click file and search for run inside the run folder remove anything suspicious "be careful in the registry"
-then click start and then all program and remove everything from the startup folder.
-run a search of you c: drive looking for .vb i beilieve the program doing this is writen in vb because vb often cant close IE explorer handles this would be why you see many in task manager then remove any files with strange names that appear in the search.
-click start and open run in vista you can type run in the search box then open run and type regedit click file and search for run inside the run folder remove anything suspicious "be careful in the registry"
-then click start and then all program and remove everything from the startup folder.
-run a search of you c: drive looking for .vb i beilieve the program doing this is writen in vb because vb often cant close IE explorer handles this would be why you see many in task manager then remove any files with strange names that appear in the search.
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For a far more complete listing of startups you should use the Misc Tools section of Hijackthis. Msconfig gives you results from just a few registry keys.
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Okay so I've turned everything off and even ran in diagnostic mode and still iexplore.exe is open on startup and so can assume that it will do its random opening during gaming. I did follow the instructions of gurukid22 and went into the registry but as I said before I don't know what is considered suspicious and what isn't and the same goes for the .vb files guru told me to look for.
Would it help if I posted a HJT log or something?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Would it help if I posted a HJT log or something?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Last edited by Bushoi; Jul 10th, 2009 at 6:20 am.
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