IE eating my cpu

[stasteamb]

Hi there.

My computer has slowed pretty dramatically in the last three weeks; it takes forever to open a webpage or to complete any other task. I ran spybot, AVG and Adaware but that didn't turn up anything. Then I checked the windows task manager and found that my cpu was running at 100% and that Internet explorer was the cause. So I figured it was a glitch with IE and downloaded the latest version IE8 and installed that in the hope that that would solve my problem but it didn't. I'm running XP Pro SP3 and had IE7 before I installed IE8.

Right now, I have three seperate browser windows open with single tabs as I was trying to see if it was a particular site that was causing my problems; gmail, yahoo mail and tech support (see left hand task manager pane). However, there is also another instance of iexplore.exe running further down the list which varies between 3 and 87 in the cpu and the memory usage just keeps going up and up (see right hand task manager pane). Between the time I took the screen shot and now, it has increased to 403,312.

I've tried to end the process and the results vary. Sometimes it close one browser window, sometimes it closes them all and sometimes it closes none. But the process eventually starts up again or if it doesn't, one of the other instances of iexplore.exe starts to go off the chart.

I tried to run the toolbar cop program but it shows an error message for a printer that doesn't exist on my system and won't generate the report so i took a screenshot of that too.

I've read several posts regarding the CPU being at 100% but nothing I have come across and tried has worked and none mentioned the memory usage climbing continuously. I deleted everything - temporary files, history, cookies etc., reduced the size of temporary internet files allocation and reduced the number of days sites are kept in history.

Just as I'm uploading the screenshots, I noticed that another instance of iexplorer.exe is listed in the task manager, but that even several minutes after closing the attachments window, it is still listed. Not sure if that's important or not.

If anybody has any ideas, they'd be much appreciated. Thanks for reading.

[pchijack]

IE is a voracious eat, No doubt about that, But i feel its more suited to hang on with it for Now, Because Chrome is a pain

[dai]

check for an infection

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