iexplore.exe in System32? How to remove?

Question

I got a virus yesterday, but I ran all of the multiple virus protections I have and cleaned up everything they picked up and ran a system restore too.

However, I noticed in task manager iexplore.exe keeps popping up and is taking 32K in memory. I click "end process" but it keeps re-appearing. This morning I got several pop-ups too out of nowhere; I was not not using any browser at all! I never use internet explorer (I'm a firefox lady) so I don't know why it would be there. I never showed up in my task manager before until this day. And my malwarebytes keeps blocking 'harmful activity' from this file. But won't remove it. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Before deleting those files, use antivirus program to isolate and determine what virus it is. Start your computer and enter the safe mode(usually by tapping the F8 Key)during the boot sequence. If your antivirus finds nothing try using a online virus scan like housecall at



http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://go.trendmicro.com/housecall7/HousecallLauncher.exe

http://go.trendmicro.com/housecall7/HousecallLauncher64.exe



Housecall will also allow you to use it to clean the virus if it identifies a problem.







1. C:\ProgramFiles\InternetExplorer



2. (as IEXPLORE.EXE-2D97EBE6.pf) in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch



and



3. C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386







Kill Multiple Processes From the Command Line



The first thing you’ll need to do is open up a command prompt, and then use the taskkill command with the following syntax:



taskkill /F /IM /T



These parameters will forcibly kill any process matching the name of the executable that you specify. For instance, to kill all iexplore.exe processes, we’d use:



taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe



Command Prompt taskkill



It’s really as simple as that… the processes will immediately be killed.



Note that if you are using Windows Vista, you can only kill “normal mode” apps from a regular command prompt… if you want to kill an application running as administrator, you would need an administrator mode command prompt.



Create an Icon to Force Kill All iexplore.exe Processes



Since we don’t really want to drop to the command prompt every single time we want to recycle Internet Explorer or Chrome, we can setup an icon to do the work for us.



Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut:



Create Shortcut



Paste in the following if you want to kill Internet Explorer, otherwise you can use a different executable in place of iexplore.exe.



taskkill.exe /F /IM iexplore.exe /T



Create Shortcut Location



Give the shortcut a useful name, and then open up the properties. Make sure to choose to Run as Minimized, and then you can select a more fitting icon… I chose the one that looks the most like recycling.



Shortcut Properties



At this point you have an icon that will completely kill all running Internet Explorer windows. You could even have assigned a shortcut key…



Recycle IE Icon



Now that you’ve learned this technique, you can use it for all sorts of other useful things as well.







Prepared by PC 2011

Thank you very much ahead of time.

Answer 2

Taskkill Iexplore.exe

Answer 3

1) GET AVG 2011! it blocks every and any virus, it updates everyday an has saved me hundreds. But what you have to do is go to start, settings, control panel, add or remove programs,(wait for it to load lol,) and remove internet explorer. It should work! Good luck!

Answer 4

there's a scourge reported as system_32.exe or system_32which isn't comparable to system32. observe the version. it takes over your desctop. i dont understand the thank you to do away with it ether. yet all i do to get reed of that's by making use of restting the computing device.

Answer 5

@Caolan C No. You may want to learn the difference between explorer.exe and iexplore.exe

iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer.



Do what PC-Smart says, he is the only one worth listening to out of the answers You have received.



@PC-Smart +10 internets for You for not being a douche.

Answer 6

iexplore is a critical microsoft process. You cannot turn it off and still continue to use your computer. If the virus has attached itself to that process, you need to reformat your computer and erase everything.

Answer 7

you should do your best to find a good uninstaller to remove iexplore.exe, you can use the most popular mightyuninstaller , it is used by many people and they have good comment to it, here to get, http://mightyuninstaller.com/

Answer 8

Remove it completely from your computer. 32kb is almost nothing.