GrayMatter
2012-12-11, 17:02
Hey guys,
This has been driving me crazy, I've scoured and scoured, and every time I feel like I've resolved the issue it comes right back.
It originally started with Internet Explorer constantly asking me to allow the installation of an add-on (which I didn't). Every time I'd click cancel it'd come back shortly after.
What this has evolved into is that at any given time, there will be 3-11 iexplore.exe processes running and they keep spawning themselves. I don't even use internet explorer, always been firefox.
What makes me certain that there's something malicious on my computer, is my web searches. +85%
of my searches are redirected. Not specifically the search feature of course, but when I attempt to open the link, I wind up on at a different URL.
Here are the list of programs I've been through;
Malware Byes
SpyBot S&D
Glary Utilities
Hitman Pro
Hijack This
I've removed any add-ons, deleted any BHO's I can find, and scanned a million times.
PLEASE HELP!
My computer is;
Dell Vostro 1400
Windows Vista 32 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo @1.4GHz each
With 2gb RAM
Note* some of my searching has come across the possibility that this is a feature that is supposed to be removable of IE8, but is only supposed to occur when using multiple tabs. But like I said, I don't use IE at all, and currently IE9 is installed.
This has been driving me crazy, I've scoured and scoured, and every time I feel like I've resolved the issue it comes right back.
It originally started with Internet Explorer constantly asking me to allow the installation of an add-on (which I didn't). Every time I'd click cancel it'd come back shortly after.
What this has evolved into is that at any given time, there will be 3-11 iexplore.exe processes running and they keep spawning themselves. I don't even use internet explorer, always been firefox.
What makes me certain that there's something malicious on my computer, is my web searches. +85%
of my searches are redirected. Not specifically the search feature of course, but when I attempt to open the link, I wind up on at a different URL.
Here are the list of programs I've been through;
Malware Byes
SpyBot S&D
Glary Utilities
Hitman Pro
Hijack This
I've removed any add-ons, deleted any BHO's I can find, and scanned a million times.
PLEASE HELP!
My computer is;
Dell Vostro 1400
Windows Vista 32 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo @1.4GHz each
With 2gb RAM
Note* some of my searching has come across the possibility that this is a feature that is supposed to be removable of IE8, but is only supposed to occur when using multiple tabs. But like I said, I don't use IE at all, and currently IE9 is installed.