Need a computer whiz opinion

[rojo412]

I need to fix something here... I believe I have some sort of malware or virus that is bugging the crap out of me...

Symptoms:
Dual "iexplore.exe" processes in the Windows Task Manager. It also did that when I'd use Chrome (chrome.exe doubled), but NOT with Firefox.

Google was little help, as I tried a lot of their solutions with no avail.
I have tried Avast, AVG, Microsoft's Security, and a few others, all which scan my computer and say there's no issues, but it still happens.
I did a system restore with no change either. It still happens.

Anyone have a fix for this? Besides just using Firefox, because I hate this program almost as much as malware.
Is there some file name I can find and delete?

[suckybassplaya]

The chrome thing is definitely not a problem. Chrome will spawn separate processes for each tab you have open, and I think it will even have an "extra" process. I have 7 tabs open in chrome right now, and have 8 chrome.exe processes running. Firefox does not use separate threads for tabs, so you will only see one process of firefox running, under normal circumstances (although, they are talking about changing this).

I'm not a big IE guy, so I don't know if having multiple copies of iexplorer.exe running is normal or not. But I don't think it is indicative of a virus. You could always try to kill one of the processes and seeing if your browser window dies.

HTH

[DigMe]

What he said -

It's not a virus based solely on what you told us. That is all normal.

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