IE trying to resource hog for some reason.

[LightingBird]

Hopefully someone can help me on this issue that I'm having currently.

For some reason, when I open explorer some times not always. My computer will slow down. As I slowly noticed going into the task manager. I noticed that my IE was using like 220K of my resources. Closed it and problem solved. Shortly later, I noticed that I was slow again with no IE open. Ill notice that there are 3-4 other IEXPLORE.exe's running with no browsers open!!!!

So I'll close them out and my pc will run like normal.

I've run the following on normal startup and in safe mode.

Adaware

Hijackthis

Spyware Doctor

Nothing stops it or finds it. Can anyone help me?

 

[jeremy]

download ewido anti-malware & full database updates
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/updates/
install it & the updates but during installation under "Additional Options" uncheck "Install background guard" , restart info safe mode and run ewido and do as follows
1. Click on "Scanner" and choose "Settings".
2. Under the bottom section "What to Scan?" make sure "Scan every file" is selected.
3. Select "OK" and you will return to scanning options.
4. On the main screen click on "Complete System Scan" to start the scan.
5. While the scan is in progress, you will be prompted to clean the first infected file if finds. Put a check next to "Perform action on all infections" in the lower left corner.
6. Then choose "Clean" and click "OK".
7. After everything was cleaned exit ewido and run hijackthis and click "do a system scan and save a logfile" restart and open a new thread at this section http://www.techist.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=126&s= open the log and copy & paste it (the log file is saved on the same folder you ran hijackthis from, do not run it from a temp folder)

if you cant access the ewido site it means the hosts file was modified in that case goto start-->run-->notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , delete all entries except
127.0.0.1 localhost , and save then it will work