Re: Too many IEXPLORE.EXE in my task manager

From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/12/04


Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:37:48 -0600

I think you are on the right track. Scan for Viruses, Worms and Trojans.
  Install an Antivirus program, a Popup blocker and a personal Firewall
and you should be relatively safe.

Izzy wrote:

> Hi,has anybody had or seen this before? it seems that
> everytime my son gets on the internet and play games I
> notice in my task manager IEXPLORE.EXE too many times.
>
> Sometimes I see up to 5 IEXPLORE.EXE and some of them are
> using 60,000k I can not end or get rid of them unless I
> restart my pc. Could this be a virus? cause its weird, if
> you could help I would really apreciated thanks.
>



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