MS IE

[Typhoon]

Has anyone had the problem of MS IE constantly replicating itself? A nonstop of opening new windows? I have terminate IE through the Task Manager in order for it to stop.

[Darius Wey]

Are you implying that you're having new IE windows constantly being created without any user interaction, or is this after you, say create a new "tab" using the MSN Toolbar plug-in?

If the former, I'd give your computer a scan for any ad/spyware. Nasty critters, they are. Chances are, there's a bot on your computer programmed to launch multiple instances of iexplore.exe. I can't really think of any other cause.

[Typhoon]

sounds odd...it's happened on most other Windows computers I have had...

[Darius Wey]

Well, for what it's worth, I've never seen this behaviour exhibited on all the computers I've used.

[Typhoon]

...really odd...oh well...thanks anyways...

[Don't Panic!]

I've seen that. Not recently though. It's definitely spy/ad/malware related. Try Ad-Aware and Spy-bot Search & Destroy to get rid of it.

HTH

[Typhoon]

Yea, I guess it's got to be something. I've ran AdAware and Spyware. I mostly got cookies and MRU Lists (?)... Are there other good spyware programs or are those the best out there?

[Jason Dunn]

Microsoft AntiSpyware is the best I've seen:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

[Don't Panic!]

Those are the most popular as far as I know. Try the Browser Hijack removing program over at Merijin.org (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html) in Downloads and definitely check his forums list for some online help in removing this annoying junk.