Re: IE 6 Crashing Windows XP

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:21:02 -0600

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread. 

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"awb" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:278101c3fc8d$ebecd160$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Since yesterday, on opening IE (v6)with XP Home (SP1) I
> get an IE window which displays my home page and then
> between 5 and 20 seconds later closes down causing XP to
> shut down and the sytem to reboot.  This only occurs when
> using IE to access the Internet.  When no Internet
> connection is being used the PC runs fine.  Windows Update
> was run on the affected PC yesterday prior to these
> problems occuring.  I have a non-updated PC (ie last ran
> Windows Update about a week or two ago) that does not have
> this problem.
>
> Any ideas - some other posts today seem similar.  Any
> help/ideas?

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