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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
After being open for a minute or two, I.E. starts opening new instances (new
windows) of itself at random. If left alone, it will open dozens. I think it's crapware of some kind. Has anyone had experience with this and discovered a specific cause? Thanks! |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
SPD wrote:
After being open for a minute or two, I.E. starts opening new instances (new windows) of itself at random. If left alone, it will open dozens. I think it's crapware of some kind. Has anyone had experience with this and discovered a specific cause? When you exit IE11, look in Task Manager's Processes tab to make sure ALL instances of iexplore.exe are gone. Some sites manage to load a hidden instance of IE (app without a window) and then use a timer to later open up more IE windows. If you exit and there are no hidden instances of iexplore.exe still loaded then make sure you enable the popup blocked in IE. So what [decent] anti-virus/malware software did you use to scan your computer for malware that might exhibit the behavior you mentioned? |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
SPD wrote:
After being open for a minute or two, I.E. starts opening new instances (new windows) of itself at random. If left alone, it will open dozens. I think it's crapware of some kind. Has anyone had experience with this and discovered a specific cause? Thanks! I saw a similar thing while setting up a new computer. It turned out to be malware of some kind that was pre-loaded on the system. It was detected and eliminated during scans once I had some anti virus software installed. -- Best regards, Neil |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
"Neil" wrote in message ... SPD wrote: After being open for a minute or two, I.E. starts opening new instances (new windows) of itself at random. If left alone, it will open dozens. I think it's crapware of some kind. Has anyone had experience with this and discovered a specific cause? Thanks! I saw a similar thing while setting up a new computer. It turned out to be malware of some kind that was pre-loaded on the system. It was detected and eliminated during scans once I had some anti virus software installed. -- Best regards, Neil Thanks. I never did find the cause, but it did stop after several scan & cleans. |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
Its a fault that has happened since version 6 it happens at random and you
have to force close internet explorer to stop it. -- AL'S COMPUTERS "SPD" wrote in message ... "Neil" wrote in message ... SPD wrote: After being open for a minute or two, I.E. starts opening new instances (new windows) of itself at random. If left alone, it will open dozens. I think it's crapware of some kind. Has anyone had experience with this and discovered a specific cause? Thanks! I saw a similar thing while setting up a new computer. It turned out to be malware of some kind that was pre-loaded on the system. It was detected and eliminated during scans once I had some anti virus software installed. -- Best regards, Neil Thanks. I never did find the cause, but it did stop after several scan & cleans. |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
Neil wrote:
Andy wrote: Its a fault that has happened since version 6 it happens at random and you have to force close internet explorer to stop it. Doing only that will not eliminate the problem, which might explain why you might see it again. I can't promise anything, but if you run Process Monitor, you can select a filter term such as "Operation is" "Process Start" and log each process that is started. If the operations in question were trying to launch a separate process, each of the entries in Process Monitor would have the command line parameters passed to the process. As the trace is being collected, double-clicking an entry in there will show what was used when the process was started. For example, when I play a game here, I didn't know this, but something tickles an NVidia program (loaded by rundll32) and passes some sort of color adjustment command to it. And using Process Monitor, I could see that in the log. Process Monitor started to run out of RAM after a couple hours, so there's a limit to how long you can leave it running. Presumably some config option in the program, can increase the max run time of the logging. (Process Monitor) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rnals/bb896645 I was playing with that, to see if I could prepare for the next "zombie" process that shows up here. I had something on the machine earlier today, which was communicating (keepalive) with some node on the Internet. TCPView from Sysinternals, showed there was a process with no name doing it. And that process did not show up in Task Manager or Process Explorer (from Sysinternals). Really weird. A scan revealed nothing of interest on C:. So I don't know what the hell was going on. Still, it got me interested in seeing if Process Monitor could keep track of (previously launched) stuff. And it would need more storage space, to leave it running all day. Paul |
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IE 11 in Win 8.1 going nuts
Andy wrote:
Its a fault that has happened since version 6 it happens at random and you have to force close internet explorer to stop it. Doing only that will not eliminate the problem, which might explain why you might see it again. -- Best regards, Neil |
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