gr8dane Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 When I boot up my P4 WIN XP Media Edition machine, all CPU time is consumed by explorer.exe to the point of bringing the system to its knees. When I manually stop explorer.exe from the task manager and then immediately launch a new explorer.exe, the system works normally. I have read a little about corrupt .AVI files, but that apparently is not the problem. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 try booting into safe mode and running an antivius scan and spyware.. sounds like the browser might be hijacked.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8dane Posted March 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 I do not use IE (Internet Explorer) as my browser. It is not THAT "explorer" that is causing the problem. Gotta love MS naming both programs almost the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 I would agree with Swimmer that it is most likely a spyware infection. Try this online scan: www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8dane Posted March 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 I would agree with Swimmer that it is most likely a spyware infection. Try this on line scan: www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan I had already run three other scans with nothing very severe showing up. Based on the above, I ran the EWIDO scan, and sure enough it found two instances of a "high threat". I allowed the program to delete the entries and rebooted to find my machine back to normal. I am heading back to the above link to install this FREE software. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 this EWIDO scanner is excellent....found over 35 Goonies that slipped past Kaspersky, good stuff & thanks for the link ~! -JxL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 you might want to also try hijackthis.. it does a good job finding browser hijacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S7R1D3R Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 I do not use IE (Internet Explorer) as my browser. It is not THAT "explorer" that is causing the problem. Gotta love MS naming both programs almost the same thing. explorer.exe is the system that lets u browse through windows, press ctrl+alt+delete end the process then start it up again, if that doesnt work try a scan on ur pc or re-boot it up cus u got some serious issues there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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