IE stays in foregound

[Guest]

I have been seeing this behavior for some time now. It starts to annoy me a lot. Somethimes when an IE window gives up the focus, it stays in the foreground. The window in the background, which can be another IE window, an IE instance or a different app, receives the focus when I click on it, but it stays in the background. The IE window will only move to the background when I click on the title bar and then back on the other window
I am on XP, IE 6 SP1 and I have all the critical updates.
I have 3 theories: it is either related to a bug in one of the updates, to my scripting restrictions/tightening down IE - I turned off most controversial options - or to a trojan that is capturing Windows events. The latter is unlikely since I am running a firewall and don't see any unusual traffic and generally have a good idea of what's running on my system. Various virus scanners and sweepers didn't find anything, either
Anybody else seeing this

Thanks c

 

[H Leboeuf]

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.
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p.s. Do you have Yahoo companion and some other 3rd party toolbat installed?
It may be the cause.

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

I have been seeing this behavior for some time now. It starts to annoy me

a lot. Somethimes when an IE window gives up the focus, it stays in the
foreground. The window in the background, which can be another IE window, an
IE instance or a different app, receives the focus when I click on it, but
it stays in the background. The IE window will only move to the background
when I click on the title bar and then back on the other window.

I am on XP, IE 6 SP1 and I have all the critical updates.
I have 3 theories: it is either related to a bug in one of the updates, to

my scripting restrictions/tightening down IE - I turned off most
controversial options - or to a trojan that is capturing Windows events. The
latter is unlikely since I am running a firewall and don't see any unusual
traffic and generally have a good idea of what's running on my system.
Various virus scanners and sweepers didn't find anything, either.