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entropy
24 Dec 2004, 11:22pm
Every time I look, explorer.exe is running twice. Is that normal? They're both takin up a substantial amount of memory, too. The thing is, if I end them both and start explorer.exe ONCE, there doesn't seem to be any problem. What could be causing this? :confused:

Thrax
24 Dec 2004, 11:34pm
Virooses on teh yu0r PC?

entropy
24 Dec 2004, 11:53pm
Almost positive there aren't. I've scanned multiple times since I've noticed this - why I'm mentioning it now, I don't know. I've also ran Spybot and Adaware, but I'll run them again...

Access_Denied
25 Dec 2004, 12:43am
i used to have a simaler problem cept mine was IEXPLORE.EXE. it started twice with windows so i went into msconfig and killed both instantces of it an i dont have that problem anymore.. might work with yours as well, see if it shows up there

entropy
25 Dec 2004, 12:49am
Nah, explorer.exe wouldn't show up in Startup to begin with. I did check, though, and it's not there. :(

60% through a virus scan, and it found JS.Trojan.Downloader.Zerolin.B in a junk mail folder of Thunderbird. Couldn't clean it or remove it, so I'll have to do that manually later. I don't think that's what the problem is, though. I haven't noticed any problems at all.

Access_Denied
25 Dec 2004, 12:54am
im stupid, i should of looked before posting that.. sorry i couldnt help