Sounds like your computer is infested with something.
What antivirus software are you using? Is it up to date? Do you have any anti-malware programs? I'd recommend SpyBoy Search and Destroy and Adaware (NOT "Adware"!)... Malwarebytes (sp?) is also recommended pretty often on these boards.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
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I highly, highly recommend Avast, especially when the problem is revolving around IE. I installed it after a nasty infestation and I haven't had an issue since.
Plus, it just seems to go with your name.
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Originally Posted by MollyRoger
not sure if I should ask here or not but I know you guys are smart and might be able to help me.
I keep getting the error "iexplore has encountered a problem and must close... etc". Not unusual except for the fact that... I was not running IE when it pops up. It happens a lot when I'm in game. then... I started hearing strange music while I was in game... I quit... the music was still going. I pulled up my task manager and iexplore.exe was running, without my asking it to run... when I did end task on it, the music stopped. Ok. so I ran a virus scan. I have the lastest updates from symantic and no virus was found. so... any ideas? |
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
I highly, highly recommend Avast, especially when the problem is revolving around IE. I installed it after a nasty infestation and I haven't had an issue since.
Plus, it just seems to go with your name. |
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thanks! I'm certainly going to try Avast.
Avast is excellent; I use it and recommend it to everyone. I hate to see people pay good money for antivirus software when some of the best solutions are free.
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I hate to see people pay good money for antivirus software when the antivirus software generally is worse for their computer than the viruses they contract anyways! |
Originally Posted by Xyzyx
Avast is excellent; I use it and recommend it to everyone. I hate to see people pay good money for antivirus software when some of the best solutions are free.
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Avast is definitely not worse for your computer than having no antivirus at all.
Alternatively, Avira AntiVir is also nice, I use the free version. It has popup nags but it's possible to get around them (google works wonders).
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I think you misunderstood. I wasn't talking about Avast there (I had already seconded the recommendation |
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Avast is definitely not worse for your computer than having no antivirus at all.
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), as the home version is free (no nag screens! ), I was actually more so referring to Norton and McAffee... though I've heard claims that Norton has gotten "better" (Norton at least used to be able to turn any machine into a slow pile of crap, while being the least likely of all the popular AV software out there to catch anything).
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Our IT guy reccomended Norton and my dad installed it, though I was skeptical since I've heard Norton is worse than some viruses. Is it still that bad?
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Our IT guy reccomended Norton and my dad installed it, though I was skeptical since I've heard Norton is worse than some viruses. Is it still that bad?
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Norton tends to attract big businesses so I'm not surprised that's what the IT guy recommended. It's good for IT folks as it lets you do a lot of remote management stuff.|
Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Our IT guy reccomended Norton and my dad installed it, though I was skeptical since I've heard Norton is worse than some viruses. Is it still that bad?
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But it's still a bloated piece of crap. I apparently it's gotten a bit better with norton 360/antivirus 2009, but you really can't go wrong with Avast, to be honest.
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Remember this: Norton is one of the most commonly installed AV software out there (because of deals with OEMs it frequently comes preinstalled with a short subscription), so most virus makers will TEST their viruses against Norton's heuristics to ensure that it can't detect it (generally also McAfee and maybe a couple others).|
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Our IT guy reccomended Norton and my dad installed it, though I was skeptical since I've heard Norton is worse than some viruses. Is it still that bad?
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Also, in the past a few viruses used Norton's own defenses against the system: They'd hide in Norton's 'quarantine' section, which Norton hides from the rest of the system and doesn't scan... making it extremely hard to discover them.
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Norton AV and Kodak EasyShare are the two worst viruses I've come across in many years as an IT guy.
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Well now, Avast found two little trojans on my system that Norton completely missed. And I haven't had my IE problem since letting Avast deal with it.
Guess I know what anti-virus I'm sticking with now
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Originally Posted by MollyRoger
Well now, Avast found two little trojans on my system that Norton completely missed. And I haven't had my IE problem since letting Avast deal with it.
Guess I know what anti-virus I'm sticking with now |
It's the same thing that happened to me. I'm glad it worked for you!
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Good to hear. One last thing you need to do now: Stop using IE. |
Originally Posted by MollyRoger
Well now, Avast found two little trojans on my system that Norton completely missed. And I haven't had my IE problem since letting Avast deal with it.
Guess I know what anti-virus I'm sticking with now |
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I used to be the person that said this, but since I switched to Win7, I've been actually having great success with IE8. It even works better than Chrome for the sites I go to. I feel like such a traitor >_>
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Originally Posted by WingedAvenger
Good to hear. One last thing you need to do now: Stop using IE.
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not sure if I should ask here or not but I know you guys are smart and might be able to help me.
I keep getting the error "iexplore has encountered a problem and must close... etc". Not unusual except for the fact that... I was not running IE when it pops up. It happens a lot when I'm in game.
then... I started hearing strange music while I was in game... I quit... the music was still going. I pulled up my task manager and iexplore.exe was running, without my asking it to run...
when I did end task on it, the music stopped.
Ok. so I ran a virus scan. I have the lastest updates from symantic and no virus was found.
so... any ideas?