I have a bug that's taking over Explorer. I've ran the IE 6 updates (no choice--work machine, have to use it), Ad-Aware, Spy-Bot and HijackThis. Everything they've returned has been cleaned up, and something's still chokeholding IE, and Explorer as well. Any other ideas?
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It will lock up, and it errors out on some pages--anything with downloads just flat won't work--it gives a page of not code, but weird gibberish.
Oh, and the Windows installer is what it tied up. Updates, etc, won't work at all--it gives a message that the installer is processing another program and can't do anything else until that is completed. Running Norton AV, corporate edition, so it's up to date and current, doesn't find anything amiss.
Oh, and the Windows installer is what it tied up. Updates, etc, won't work at all--it gives a message that the installer is processing another program and can't do anything else until that is completed. Running Norton AV, corporate edition, so it's up to date and current, doesn't find anything amiss.
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What version of Windows are you using? If it's XP, have you run SP2 recently?
Also, have you tried installing Spyware Blaster? It's a nifty little prog that prevents ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers.
Also, have you tried installing Spyware Blaster? It's a nifty little prog that prevents ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers.
Explorer sucks use opera, sorry found this by accident
Opera is soo much nicer than IE, you will never go back to IE, opera had mouse gestures you can use!!! try it out, its free!
http://www.opera.com/download/
Opera is soo much nicer than IE, you will never go back to IE, opera had mouse gestures you can use!!! try it out, its free!
http://www.opera.com/download/
Yep--took some doing. We never actually identified what was locking up the installer, but we were able to manually run the updates and clear that out. Since it's a work machine, I don't have any choice on what browser I use.
I'm glad you got the updates. 
I had a few nasty programs install themselves on my PC in the past that no spyware program or antivirus can locate. What I've done is click on Ctrl/Alt/Del and go into Task Manager. Under the Process tab you will find listed all programs currently running on your PC. Any that I wasn't familar with, I'd type the name in Google and search to find out what they were. That's how I've found the buggers. I then check to see where they're installed at, disable them in Task Manager (End Process Tree) and then delete them. Take a peek every now and then in your Task Manager and you'll get familar with what is normally running on your machine and then if you do get an unfriendly, you'll recognize it right away as suspect.
I had a few nasty programs install themselves on my PC in the past that no spyware program or antivirus can locate. What I've done is click on Ctrl/Alt/Del and go into Task Manager. Under the Process tab you will find listed all programs currently running on your PC. Any that I wasn't familar with, I'd type the name in Google and search to find out what they were. That's how I've found the buggers. I then check to see where they're installed at, disable them in Task Manager (End Process Tree) and then delete them. Take a peek every now and then in your Task Manager and you'll get familar with what is normally running on your machine and then if you do get an unfriendly, you'll recognize it right away as suspect.
I actually did that--I frequently connect to networks that lock up, so have to use Task Manager to monitor when they are not responding, and am really familiar with the processes that normally run--there wasn't anything unusual. Even went so far as to have IT come look as well--they couldn't find anything either. Pretty goofy!