Virus/Worm -_-

[DarkRaikou]

lol, every 5-20 mins, I am getting Internet Explorer Has Encountered A Problem And Needs To Close box, when I am not even using IE. When this happens, I click "Don't Send" and I open task manager, and see IEXPLORE.EXE duplicating, every time this box comes up wheteher I press anything or not, IEXPLORE.EXE duplicates around 3-10 times. When I right-click these duplicated IEXPLORE.EXE, it starts rapidly duplicating, and does not stop, so I have to reboot. I have updated Internet Explorer to its latest version, updated my Norton's virus definitions, scanned, and it has picked nothing up.

Can you tell me what to do to get rid of this virus/worm, because it is messing up my PC.

 

[TSS_Killer]

sounds like a browser hijack....get CWShredder and see if it helps

http://cwshredder.net/bin/CWShredder.exe

 

[Geometric-sama]

... Have you tried Googling it, or searching Symantec Security Response?

 

[Kura]

@@ umm... theres this place where you can scan for specific internet worms like that..
like..
housecall.(something) i gotta find it for you..
arghh.. where is it? @@ *spazz*
i'll get RIGHT back to you when i find it @@.. sorry..

 

[Kyosuke]

There is alot of adware and spyware that Norton Anti-virus can't pick up. I would recommend using CW Shreadder or Ad-aware.

Here is the link to the download of ad-aware if you're interested: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10319876.html?tag=pop

 

[Geometric-sama]

Trend Housecall? http://housecall.antivirus.com/ But I doubt it's that... besides, if the browser keeps closing it won't work. If this spyware/worm only attacks IE then use Firefox instead. If you can't download it get it off a magazine CD.