IE Virus?

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MHawthorne

Is anyone aware of a virus or bug that crashes a pc by opening browser
windows until all resources are depleted? The user opens IE to go to the
internet, and browser windows just keep opening until the system crashes. I
have to go in and kill the iexplore.exe process to recover, or reboot the
pc.

I found some info about a bug in Weatherbug 4.0 that behaves like that, but
unfortunately, it doesn't apply.
 
IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More:
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
 
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