IEXPLORE.EXE

[Guest]

I have windows 2000 and IE 6. My IE icon properties show that the target is
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE". When I open my browser
using the IE icon, I expect to see a IEXPLORE.EXE task but when I look at
the task manager and check what process is behind the IE application, I find
explorer.exe. Why is it not creating a IEXPLORE.EXE process for my IE icon?

 

[Smile Extender]

It could be because you might have spyware a program, which is named as
explorer.exe. I encountered that kind of nasty when I browsed free sex
movies from hqmovs web site. My virus scanner warned me and removed the
threat. I then checked how the infection would have happened. The web page
tried to loadspyware and store it as explorer.exe. That spyware would then
have called real iexplore.exe.

The problem with task manager is that it doesn't display full path for
executables. so you cannot know here the file is loaded. I recommend to get
free Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com. It shows much more
information about running processes. With it you can see load paths and even
program command line arguments. That's helpful when faiting against unwanted
programs.

Niko