Internet Explorer: Unwanted Visitor

[Thor]

Internet Explorer keeps popping up when not wanted. Mostly, it occurs when
I close another program.

Any idea why this happens?

 

[forum.microsoft.com]

any more detail as what does the ie do,? what programs? or all programs
possibility: ad-ware/malware infestation,...

 

[Thor]

Thanks for jumping in here.

For sure, it happens with Windows Explorer. Click on the close button, and
up comes IE!

Now, here's a possibly connected anomaly. I downloaded an update of
RoboForm. During installation, it kept begging me to close IE. But IE wasn't
open.

I terminated explorer.exe from the processes list, and the Roboform
installation finished. But explorer.exe is listed as Windows Explorer, not
Internet Explorer.

So there seems to be some nexus between the two that I don't understand.
Maybe I ought to uninstall and reinstall IE7?

 

[Thor]

So I spent an hour installing a new IE7...and the problem is still there.

 

[Thor]

Now it seems to be happening with any software called "Explorer." For
example, a media mgt program called "Zen 5 Media Explorer." Every time I
close it, up pops IE7!

It's all in the name?