IE windows randomly shut down in XP

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Elorah Dannon

I'm running a new system with an XP Pro upgrade and my IE windows are
shutting themselves down randomly. No error comes up and not all IE
windows get shut - usually just one. What's going on??
 
1. Disconnect the WinXP machine from the internet...now!!!!!

2. On another machine, print out this reply, and then see this page:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html.

3. Also see...

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
~~~~~~~~~~~
Courtesy of MVP Carey Frisch:

There are thousands of nasty computer viruses/worms looking for unprotected
computers. Your computer can be infected within a few milliseconds the
moment an internet connection is established if your computer is not
properly secured.

You PC may be infected with the W32.Blaster.Worm or one of its variants.
This happened because you have not been using an internet connection
firewall and have apparently neglected to install the critical updates
available at the Windows Update website.

If your computer is constantly attempting to shutdown or reboot, quickly go
to:

Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter. This opens the Command Prompt
window.

Then type: shutdown -a , and hit enter.

This should halt the rebooting problem.

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Then immediately turn-on Windows XP's built-in Firewall:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm and Its Variants
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

A tool is available to remove Blaster worm and Nachi worm infections from
computers that are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
This same thing has been happening to me dsince Thursday -
but I am running Windows 2000 - all critical updates have
been installed at the time they have come out. I run
Norton Anti-Virus twice a day and update it daily. I also
use Norton Internet Security. What do I do!?
(e-mail address removed)
 
See http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html and
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/.

Also see this alert that Symantec (NAV, NIS) sent out yesterday:

<paste>
Support Advisory for products updating to LiveUpdate 2.0

When you run LiveUpdate for your Windows-based Symantec program to update
to LiveUpdate 2.0, and do not restart your computer after the installation
is complete, the program's Automatic LiveUpdate feature may become
disabled. You must restart your computer to re-enable Automatic LiveUpdate.
If you restart your computer after completing LiveUpdate, you do not
experience any issues and Automatic LiveUpdate will remain enabled.

For more information on this problem, read the document "Automatic
LiveUpdate may be disabled after updating to LiveUpdate 2.0".

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/vURL.cgi/liveupdt1
</paste>

So if you updated NAV's LiveUpdate to v2.0 and didn't reboot, AutoProtect is
/not/ autoprotecting you!
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
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