RE: iexplore32b

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From: Gary (Gary_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:35:02 -0800

Thanks for your help so far. Alas none of your suggestions have worked!

What I have now done is to uninstall SP2. By doing so internest explorer,
outlook, real player and everything else which connects to the internet
continues to run fine. I found the iexplore32b.exe file in the
C:\windows\prefetch and C:\..\system32 directories and deleted it - the
process still shows as running but now has no nnoticable effect with just SP1
installed.

My Norton worm detector did come up with this warning though and I chose to
Block - does it mean anything to anyone?

"The user has created a rule to "block" communications.
Inbound UDP packet.
Local address,service is (0.0.0.0,tftp(69)).
Remote address,service is (80.143.32.207,1412).
Process name is "C:\WINDOWS\System32\IExplore32b.exe"."

"Gary" wrote:

> Since installing SP2 I have a process running called iexplore32b.exe (had to
> restore to an earlier point to discover what was different). As well as
> keeping my hard drive very busy, after a couple of minutes of logging onto my
> broadband connection Explorer and Outlook fail to recognise that I am logged
> on (if I drop into cmd I can check that I am still connected). If I
> disconnect and sign into my connection again I again have a few minutes
> before the same problem arises.
>
> If I stop the process then all is OK but neither Norton (fully up to date)
> nor SpyBot recognise this file as a problem and I can't find it either on a
> normal file search. Anyone got a solution?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Gary