S
Smirnoff
Flightless Bird
XP Pro, SP3, IE8
I noticed that I had two instances of iexplore.exe running in Task Manager
processes.
Discovering this was part of my attempt to find out why I suddenly couldn't
sign in to WLM.
Having done some searching on different forums, I discovered that some
people were blaming the BT Yahoo Toolbar for this behaviour. I have run the
BT Toolbar without problems before, although I recently upgraded to version
8, so the new version may be the problem.
I decided to open IE8 in "No Add Ons" mode but Task Manager still showed two
iexplore.exe processes (one using about 54,000k the other about 15,000k). So
then I uninstalled BT Yahoo toolbar along with any other BT or Yahoo
applications I could find in Add/Remove Programs and rebooted.
On reopening IE8 the two processes were still shown even after toolbar etc.
uninstall.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my AV and have recently run
Malwarebytes and Superantispyware (both fully updated) so I don't think it's
a malware or virus problem.
I noticed that I had two instances of iexplore.exe running in Task Manager
processes.
Discovering this was part of my attempt to find out why I suddenly couldn't
sign in to WLM.
Having done some searching on different forums, I discovered that some
people were blaming the BT Yahoo Toolbar for this behaviour. I have run the
BT Toolbar without problems before, although I recently upgraded to version
8, so the new version may be the problem.
I decided to open IE8 in "No Add Ons" mode but Task Manager still showed two
iexplore.exe processes (one using about 54,000k the other about 15,000k). So
then I uninstalled BT Yahoo toolbar along with any other BT or Yahoo
applications I could find in Add/Remove Programs and rebooted.
On reopening IE8 the two processes were still shown even after toolbar etc.
uninstall.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my AV and have recently run
Malwarebytes and Superantispyware (both fully updated) so I don't think it's
a malware or virus problem.