Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Iexplorer.exe stays running or loads at startup automatically

basilcrayfish · 11-26-2007, 05:38 AM

Wow, first ever thread where I have seen 4 posts all by the originating person,.......me.

So here is where things are at now.......I have disabled all the add-ons in IE as I was finding IExplore.exe kept running in the background.

So after having disabled every add-on, I find out this morning that iexplore.exe is running in the background again. I opened Task Manager and there is iexplore.exe running......so I ended the process.

Now I am confused.......I have disabled the add-ons, reduced startup programs from 80 processes to just 59, have run scans using Nod32, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware 2007 and still iexplore.exe spontaneously runs as a background app.

Does that mean my system is infected somehow?
How come nothing is found on my system though?

At a loss here as to what could be causing this.

11-26-2007, 05:38 AM	#4 (permalink)
basilcrayfish Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 5 OS: WinXPPro	Re: Iexplorer.exe stays running or loads at startup automatically Wow, first ever thread where I have seen 4 posts all by the originating person,.......me. So here is where things are at now.......I have disabled all the add-ons in IE as I was finding IExplore.exe kept running in the background. So after having disabled every add-on, I find out this morning that iexplore.exe is running in the background again. I opened Task Manager and there is iexplore.exe running......so I ended the process. Now I am confused.......I have disabled the add-ons, reduced startup programs from 80 processes to just 59, have run scans using Nod32, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware 2007 and still iexplore.exe spontaneously runs as a background app. Does that mean my system is infected somehow? How come nothing is found on my system though? At a loss here as to what could be causing this.