Explorer opens by itself

I started having some serious problems last night, I was seeing that my cpu load was maxed out while i was totally idle, then later it started going from 100% to ~2% over and over again while my entire system was in idle. I went to system restore and to my amazement found no restore points!! Anyway, I'm not all that computer savy, but i came here and did all the tests, downloads and procedures the best i could. cool thing was, in the middle of it all (more specifically after the ccleaner I believe or perhaps after deleting a few programs that were not recommended), my system's cpu seemed to go back to normal. i continued the procedures outlined under windows xp malware removal however. Now, everything seems to be working pretty good, except i get these explorer windows popping up every few minutes while i'm using my firefox browser.

i didn't get any errors or have problems using the various removal programs, and ill attach the logs of course.

i'm running windows xp sp2. please let me know if you need any more info, i did try my best to follow all the guidelines before posting.


thanks in advance for any help.

 

Chaslang,

WOW! Surfing immediately after your procedures produced no pop-up explorer windows (ie, while running firefox). Further, upon rebooting the system seems to reboot very nicely (it was slugish and did all sorts of weird things before). All in all, so far, the entire system seems to be operating very smoothly, no problems to speak of.

Not sure if the system is entirely fixed yet because I'm sure no expert. Thus, I attached the files you asked for.

I would like to take this opportunity to give you my sincerest thank you. Help of the nature you gave me is so valuable and you (and others here) give it with such generosity. I really could never thank you enough is the honest truth.

Andy

 

I've been unable to install the sun java you told me to, the following text appears when i try and the window simply says ok at bottom:

Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4000.1823

msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter]

Install Options
</package | /i> <Product.msi>
Installs or configures a product
/a <Product.msi>
Administrative install - Installs a product on the network
/j<u|m> <Product.msi> [/t <Transform List>] [/g <Language ID>]
Advertises a product - m to all users, u to current user
</uninstall | /x> <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Uninstalls the product
Display Options
/quiet
Quiet mode, no user interaction
/passive
Unattended mode - progress bar only
/q[n|b|r|f]
Sets user interface level
n - No UI
b - Basic UI
r - Reduced UI
f - Full UI (default)
/help
Help information
Restart Options
/norestart
Do not restart after the installation is complete
/promptrestart
Prompts the user for restart if necessary
/forcerestart
Always restart the computer after installation
Logging Options
/l[i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] <LogFile>
i - Status messages
w - Nonfatal warnings
e - All error messages
a - Start up of actions
r - Action-specific records
u - User requests
c - Initial UI parameters
m - Out-of-memory or fatal exit information
o - Out-of-disk-space messages
p - Terminal properties
v - Verbose output
x - Extra debugging information
+ - Append to existing log file
! - Flush each line to the log
* - Log all information, except for v and x options
/log <LogFile>
Equivalent of /l* <LogFile>
Update Options
/update <Update1.msp>[;Update2.msp]
Applies update(s)
/uninstall <PatchCodeGuid>[;Update2.msp] /package <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Remove update(s) for a product
Repair Options
/f[p|e|c|m|s|o|d|a|u|v] <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Repairs a product
p - only if file is missing
o - if file is missing or an older version is installed (default)
e - if file is missing or an equal or older version is installed
d - if file is missing or a different version is installed
c - if file is missing or checksum does not match the calculated value
a - forces all files to be reinstalled
u - all required user-specific registry entries (default)
m - all required computer-specific registry entries (default)
s - all existing shortcuts (default)
v - runs from source and recaches local package
Setting Public Properties
[PROPERTY=PropertyValue]

Consult the Windows ® Installer SDK for additional documentation on the
command line syntax.

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####Also, i was unable to install the avg free anti virus getting the following message:

Installer initialization failed due to the following error:
Undefined error: Invalid command line argument "and".

Further, i am getting a couple error windows opening now upon starting up. ill post what they say here in a moment.

 

chaslang,

well, i didn't get the two error messages upon boot up that time, haha, so i can't tell you what they said. a good thing i guess.

as for the anti virus, i'll just try another one of the downloads. the other recommended removers/detectors installed fine.

the java sun i still don't understand why it will not install though.

i think i can work everything out from here, just wanted to post the progress. in general everything seems to be running great!

thanks again for everything!!!!

andy

 

chaslang,

Java ended up installing the next day for some reason, same procedure and exe file and everything. Weird. So, in the end, i got everything installed that I wanted to and am running great, and protected. but yeah, at first another one of the virus protectors wouldn't install as well. In any case, all seems to be running great, and i really can't thank you enough.

Andy