"Encountering Problem" message

I am getting a message box that pops up in various areas including
application programs and Windows and Internet Explorer. It states that the
program has "encountered a problem and needs to shut down". At the bottom it
gives me three option buttons, Send or Don't Send to Microsoft, and DeBug.
When I click any of these options it closes the application and I lose
everything I was working on. This is happening more frequently and it's an
extreme pain. I have no virus that I know of and I scan daily for
adware/spyware. What causes this and how do I KILL IT?
Thank you,
BG
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BG

If you're very certain that you're virus and spyware free, you evidentally
have serious system corruption. If you can't restore a known good backup,
you may be looking at a reinstall, unless you can narrow down possible
causes for your problems.

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Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"Blookah" <blookah@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C0574C2D-2949-44EF-961A-5C7F4917E31D@microsoft.com...
> I am getting a message box that pops up in various areas including
> application programs and Windows and Internet Explorer. It states that the
> program has "encountered a problem and needs to shut down". At the bottom
it
> gives me three option buttons, Send or Don't Send to Microsoft, and DeBug.
> When I click any of these options it closes the application and I lose
> everything I was working on. This is happening more frequently and it's an
> extreme pain. I have no virus that I know of and I scan daily for
> adware/spyware. What causes this and how do I KILL IT?
> Thank you,
> BG
> --
> BG