IE 6 sp2 Hang. Can anyone help?

[Guest]

When starting up and browsing, my internet explorer hangs and appears to
cause everything else to hang as well. I can't start task manager to kill
the app and have to repeatedly kill it using the close buttn (top right).
Windows gives me the option to report the fault which I do and then view the
suggested fixes but they always tell me that there is spyware, adware or a
virus. I have updated all the packages I have (Spyware Doctor and AVG free)
and I also download all the latest patches from MS but nothing seems to work.

If I do manage to get Task Manager to run, it reports that one of the
svchost.exe processes is using a lot of memory, and system idle processes is
maxed out at 99 on cpu useage.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

When starting up and browsing, my internet explorer hangs and appears to
cause everything else to hang as well. I can't start task manager to kill
the app and have to repeatedly kill it using the close buttn (top right).
Windows gives me the option to report the fault which I do and then view the
suggested fixes but they always tell me that there is spyware, adware or a
virus. I have updated all the packages I have (Spyware Doctor and AVG free)
and I also download all the latest patches from MS but nothing seems to work.

If I do manage to get Task Manager to run, it reports that one of the
svchost.exe processes is using a lot of memory, and system idle processes is
maxed out at 99 on cpu useage.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi Gary,
Try to do scan online from here;
http://www.panadasecurity.com
http://www.trendmicro.com
http://www.avast.com
for spyware try download this;
http://www.lavasoftusa.com Lavasoft SE personal use
http://www.safer-networking.org Spybot S&D
and see what you will find.
By the way is spy Doctor is Free or paied for?
Tell us more about your OS Version and IE Version and other applications
installed on your computer.
HTH.
Please let us know.
Regards,
nass
www.nasstec.co.uk