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Why have 40+ processes of iexplore.exe been spawned?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20261347 views
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My system ( Dell Inspiron 1520, Core 2 Duo T5250 @ 1.5GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 8600m GT) was acting a bit sluggish, so I launched Process Explorer, and when I saw the process tree I was astounded: Why are so many processes running ? I don't use Internet Explorer. I use Steam so I suppose that's 1 …

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Fix for: Why have 40+ processes of iexplore.exe been spawned?

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I've seen this behavior on others machines before. I know you've run HijackThis already, but give MBAM (Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware) a try, it may have missed something. A lot of malware will try and "phone home" to give the coder information as to w…

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