Internet Explorer hangs

I am running xp home with SP2 and my internet explorer is not working. I
click on the icon to open it & a blank page appaers, the little flag is
flying yet there is no status bar indicating it may be loading. I hangs like
this indefinately. When I click on stop it will come up with an action
cancelled page & will not refresh, no other web pages work. I am able to run
Firefox but that is also behaving strangely. It will shut down after a while
if I am on pages like yahoo games but is ok with other pages. As I logged
onto net today, I clicked on IE to see if anything had changed & it was the
same as before until I clicked stop. IE began to multipy up to 41 pages, some
with several tabs in then, it then decresed slowly the increased again. CPU
was at 100% & I was only able to stop it by selecting end task in the task
manager. Hope someone has some ideas. Can be contact ed at jrwvhcbvh(remove
this) @yahoo.com.au. Cannot always see support pages, probably as no IE!!

"samcat" <> wrote in message
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>I am running xp home with SP2 and my internet explorer is not working. I
> click on the icon to open it & a blank page appaers, the little flag is
> flying yet there is no status bar indicating it may be loading. I hangs
> like
> this indefinately. When I click on stop it will come up with an action
> cancelled page & will not refresh, no other web pages work. I am able to
> run
> Firefox but that is also behaving strangely. It will shut down after a
> while
> if I am on pages like yahoo games but is ok with other pages. As I logged
> onto net today, I clicked on IE to see if anything had changed & it was
> the
> same as before until I clicked stop. IE began to multipy up to 41 pages,
> some
> with several tabs in then, it then decresed slowly the increased again.
> CPU
> was at 100% & I was only able to stop it by selecting end task in the
> task
> manager. Hope someone has some ideas. Can be contact ed at
> jrwvhcbvh(remove
> this) @yahoo.com.au. Cannot always see support pages, probably as no IE!!

It's probably a malware infection:

So How Did I Get Infected Anyway?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971

Help with Hijackware
All MS - MVP Sites.
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
(http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm)
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware
(http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm)
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html)
(http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm)

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

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Blank pages.
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html

I've seen the multiple pages problem when people try to run IE6 and IE7 side
by side. Also, if file type associations are borked.

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"samcat" <> wrote in message
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>I am running xp home with SP2 and my internet explorer is not working. I
> click on the icon to open it & a blank page appaers, the little flag is
> flying yet there is no status bar indicating it may be loading. I hangs
> like
> this indefinately. When I click on stop it will come up with an action
> cancelled page & will not refresh, no other web pages work. I am able to
> run
> Firefox but that is also behaving strangely. It will shut down after a
> while
> if I am on pages like yahoo games but is ok with other pages. As I logged
> onto net today, I clicked on IE to see if anything had changed & it was
> the
> same as before until I clicked stop. IE began to multipy up to 41 pages,
> some
> with several tabs in then, it then decresed slowly the increased again.
> CPU
> was at 100% & I was only able to stop it by selecting end task in the
> task
> manager. Hope someone has some ideas. Can be contact ed at
> jrwvhcbvh(remove
> this) @yahoo.com.au. Cannot always see support pages, probably as no IE!!

"samcat" wrote:

> I am running xp home with SP2 and my internet explorer is not working. I
> click on the icon to open it & a blank page appaers, the little flag is
> flying yet there is no status bar indicating it may be loading. I hangs like
> this indefinately. When I click on stop it will come up with an action
> cancelled page & will not refresh, no other web pages work. I am able to run
> Firefox but that is also behaving strangely. It will shut down after a while
> if I am on pages like yahoo games but is ok with other pages. As I logged
> onto net today, I clicked on IE to see if anything had changed & it was the
> same as before until I clicked stop. IE began to multipy up to 41 pages, some
> with several tabs in then, it then decresed slowly the increased again. CPU
> was at 100% & I was only able to stop it by selecting end task in the task
> manager. Hope someone has some ideas. Can be contact ed at jrwvhcbvh(remove
> this) @yahoo.com.au. Cannot always see support pages, probably as no IE!!

"Sandi - Microsoft MVP" wrote:

> Blank pages.
> http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html
>
> I've seen the multiple pages problem when people try to run IE6 and IE7 side
> by side. Also, if file type associations are borked.
>
> I do not have IE 7 on my computer & have tried the run options (regsvr32 Urlmon.dll etc) with no difference. I'm sorry but I don't know what "borked" means. Glad for any and all help.

What about the other fixes?

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Internet Explorer Community
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"samcat" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Sandi - Microsoft MVP" wrote:
>
>> Blank pages.
>> http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html
>>
>> I've seen the multiple pages problem when people try to run IE6 and IE7
>> side
>> by side. Also, if file type associations are borked.
>>
>> I do not have IE 7 on my computer & have tried the run options (regsvr32
>> Urlmon.dll etc) with no difference. I'm sorry but I don't know what
>> "borked" means. Glad for any and all help.

I tried the other fixes applicable to my pc. None worked although when I
tried the broken entry fix I was able to do only HyperText Transfer Protocal
with the other two popping up a window, after clicling ok, saying "The
specified progam could not be found. Make sure the file name and path are
correct". I had the correct details.
Thanks.

"Sandi - Microsoft MVP" wrote:

> What about the other fixes?
>
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> Sandi Hardmeier
> Microsoft MVP since 1999
> http://www.ie-vista.com
> Internet Explorer Community
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...y/default.mspx
> The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.
>