IE6 lockup problems...

[blacksheep]

Well, it all started with the ebay site. The main page took forever to load on my new machine while it flew by on the pentium III machine. So, I poke around and decide to go to tools - internet options - settings - view objects and the machine freezes. Immediately, I get a non-reponsive program error and a doctor watson postmortem error or something? Whats going on here?

I am running wfp as I type to see if I can find a problem. My CD is XP and since then I have installed SP2! Any ideas or suggestions to help fix this.

My machine is also running super slow all of a sudden. I tried PCBooster, but thats been of no help. I have 512MB of RAM, Pentium IV 1.8GHz. Not sure why its being a PITA.

Cable Modem and a router installed as well. Dunno if that could be doing it.

HELP ME!

Thanks a lot in advance!

KC

[MnCableGuy]

Re: IE6 lockup problems...

I hope you dont have what i had yesterday... same thing happened to me!!! IE would freeze up and get VERY slow, to the point I couldnt do anything..
CTRL-alt-delete and check your processes tab for an exe called TCPWMS.exe.
That SOB was draining my CPU power resources and maxing it out at 100%. I would close and end it and it would pop right back.. I couldnt cleasn or delete it either. I ran a virus check and spyware and somehow I managed to get the W32.coflop.mm and W32.chainsaw.worm viruses.. I dont have a clue where they came from because my security is locked down tighter then fort knox. and that TCPWMS.exe braught me down to the speed slow as a turtle. I finally ended up having to reformat my computers because it spread through my network somehow. I hope you didnt get the same thing I had. I would also do a file and registry check for any of those 3. I tried everything I could to get rid of them with no luck, it got so bad my computer stiopped responding unless I kept closing out that TCPwms.exe, I would see my resources go from 100% to 75% when I did that. It didnt just affect my browser, affected my entire cpu and network.

[Raggy]

Re: IE6 lockup problems...

I would have to say that the surmise ventured above is likely correct. It is likely that you are affected by either adware or a virus and you should take measures accordingly. I would use Hijackthis and post the log and we can likely tell you what is nabbing your processing power.