[PC] IE Weirdness
Mar. 8th, 2009 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonOkay, I know I haven't downloaded any weird viruses, and none of my security programs are finding any viruses, malware, or whatnot.
However, over the last few weeks, my Internet Explorer has been acting weird. It seems that every now and again, especially when I'm going from one page to another (or when I first pop up at a page), the page will suddenly change to what looks like the My Computer folder and show as if it's scanning the folders and finding malware. I usually stop it immediately--which will either close the browser or want to continue scanning.
Now, to my knowledge, none of my security programs do that, and I know I haven't changed any of the settings to make it do that. I don't even know what might be doing it. And as said, McAfee, Ad-Aware, and all the other security programs aren't catching anything.
Another weird thing? Every now and again a second browser window will pop up that will supposedly bring me to the Yellow Pages site. No idea why that is happening, either.
(And yes, if you're wondering, I'm writing this on my work PC at the moment, which is not having this issue at all.)
Emm says it's happened to her a few times, and she's convinced it might be some of the ads on some of the pages. Both of our pop-up blockers have been working overtime the last few weeks, too.
Any ideas/suggestions/horror stories as to why this might be happening and what I might be able to do to stop it? I'm this close to reinstalling IE7 just to be on the safe side.
As an aside, this seems to have popped up when I downloaded Google Chrome when I updated Google Earth, so I'm wondering if a setting on that browser (which I never use and probably should get rid of) is causing this.
Help me, LJ, you're my only hope! (Well, there is C|Net too, but I couldn't pass up a bit of geeky silliness...)
Thanks ahead of time!
However, over the last few weeks, my Internet Explorer has been acting weird. It seems that every now and again, especially when I'm going from one page to another (or when I first pop up at a page), the page will suddenly change to what looks like the My Computer folder and show as if it's scanning the folders and finding malware. I usually stop it immediately--which will either close the browser or want to continue scanning.
Now, to my knowledge, none of my security programs do that, and I know I haven't changed any of the settings to make it do that. I don't even know what might be doing it. And as said, McAfee, Ad-Aware, and all the other security programs aren't catching anything.
Another weird thing? Every now and again a second browser window will pop up that will supposedly bring me to the Yellow Pages site. No idea why that is happening, either.
(And yes, if you're wondering, I'm writing this on my work PC at the moment, which is not having this issue at all.)
Emm says it's happened to her a few times, and she's convinced it might be some of the ads on some of the pages. Both of our pop-up blockers have been working overtime the last few weeks, too.
Any ideas/suggestions/horror stories as to why this might be happening and what I might be able to do to stop it? I'm this close to reinstalling IE7 just to be on the safe side.
As an aside, this seems to have popped up when I downloaded Google Chrome when I updated Google Earth, so I'm wondering if a setting on that browser (which I never use and probably should get rid of) is causing this.
Help me, LJ, you're my only hope! (Well, there is C|Net too, but I couldn't pass up a bit of geeky silliness...)
Thanks ahead of time!
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Date: 2009-03-08 08:06 pm (UTC)I started using Firefox then and have had no trouble whatsoever from it.
I never did find out what happened to IE. I hope you have better luck.