IE Keeps Shutting Down

[Achintan]

Since yesterday, when I start IE, the home page opens up,
but as soon as I trying going to another site, IE freezes
up, and then displays a msg saying that it has to shut
down, and gives me the option of sending MS an error
report. I had to download Netscape, and it worked fine.
Could the IE problem be related to the Macromedia Flash
upgrade that I downloaded y'day? And could anyone help me
fix it? Thanks.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Since yesterday, when I start IE, the home page opens up,
but as soon as I trying going to another site, IE freezes
up, and then displays a msg saying that it has to shut
down, and gives me the option of sending MS an error
report. I had to download Netscape, and it worked fine.
Could the IE problem be related to the Macromedia Flash
upgrade that I downloaded y'day? And could anyone help me
fix it? Thanks.

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

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