Windows XP Internet Explorer problems

#1 Guardian

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Posted 09 September 2003 - 07:22 PM

Hi guys

My Athlon XP 1800+ has been working without a problem for 1 year. But the problems started 2 days ago. Every time i run IE, the hard disk starts to "work" without pause and the system runs at "slow motion", but i have a swap file of 768 mb and there are more than 5 gbs of free space in my HD. The curious fact is such HD activity begins when i connect to an url, not when IE starts with the default blank page. In these conditions surfing the www is near impossible; i am writing this post from a friend's PC.
Of course, i use Win XP Pro with SP1 and all fixes and updates.
Any one have any clue how to fix my problem?
Thanks in advance

#2 ReadError

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Posted 09 September 2003 - 09:28 PM

Try running Lavasoft Ad-aware, maybe there's a spyware at work

#3 Sampson

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Posted 09 September 2003 - 10:44 PM

It may very well be that you have have a worm or some spybot. On the other hand, it may be time to clean out the IE cache, cookies, and other junk that IE liberally downloads onto your hard drive. Doing this will make you have to log in manually to some boards the first time you use them since the automating cookie will disappear.