well...im concluding its that bc it says internet explorers open when its not and ive tried to install exactly the same software on my old laptop and the one before that and the one before...etc and it installed fine. and iexplore.exe wont end so i just kinda figured...

Hi Guys !
I have just found Iexplore.exe running twice on a PC i was sorting for a customer,
They were running even though i didn't have iexplorer browser open ! ?
after some searching i found that the program that was starting them was
called "sizemeowmemo.exe" i googled it and came up with nothing !
So Here's how i got shut of it ! :OP
( Ho ! I comes in with a virus called Swizzor)
First i did a search on the PC for "sizemeowmemo.exe"
I found 2 files..... "I Deleted them"
Then i serched the redg (Find ---> "sizemeowmemo.exe")
I found about 5 entrys and deleeted them,
then you can stop the prosseses in task maneger,
Then do a search for a folder called "lies-dvd-funk" ..Delete them.
reboot and that seemed to sort it... :O)
I hope this info helps someone.
Thanx.
The cOffin dOdger

i belive it has something to do with IE8 because when i had IE7 it wasnt running 2 of the same procesees, so my guess is after you install IE8, IE7 still runs along side of IE8 for some odd reason the only way to fix this would be to uninstall IE7 before you ever install IE8,but i have not found a opiton anywhere to uninstall IE7. I dont even use internet explorer that often anymore anyways,fire fox has a much smaller footprint and only one process

i belive it has something to do with IE8 because when i had IE7 it wasnt running 2 of the same procesees, so my guess is after you install IE8, IE7 still runs along side of IE8 for some odd reason the only way to fix this would be to uninstall IE7 before you ever install IE8,but i have not found a opiton anywhere to uninstall IE7. I dont even use internet explorer that often anymore anyways,fire fox has a much smaller footprint and only one process

i belive it has something to do with IE8 because when i had IE7 it wasnt running 2 of the same procesees, so my guess is after you install IE8, IE7 still runs along side of IE8 for some odd reason the only way to fix this would be to uninstall IE7 before you ever install IE8,but i have not found a opiton anywhere to uninstall IE7. I dont even use internet explorer that often anymore anyways,fire fox has a much smaller footprint and only one process

Yea IE8 has 2 iexplorer proseses running ,
but the "sizemeowmemo.exe" has them running even when iexplorer is not open.
:O)

hi im having a problem

ok the problem im having is everytime i open a internet explorer a second process starts and uses alot of memory, when i use my bt broswer it doesnt happen but i prefer using IE, can anyone read my log and see if i have nastys, im pretty sure i have.

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I need your help, I also have 2 iexplore.exe on my task manager, tried your response to Vudew, but it didn't work, I'm pretty sure that each problem is different. Please guide me, onto what I need to do. Here I attached my hjt log file.
Thanks for the help in advance.

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is internet explorer 8 supposed to have two processes because my computer was normal when i had ie7 and then when i updated it started having 2 processes autimatically.

Yea if its Explorer 8 it dose have 2 iexplorer exe's running :O)
its only if there running when Explorer is not !
Then you have a prob.

If your not sure get malwarebytes its a graet program and its free !
Dont forget to update it every day :O)

malwarebytes. org

you seen to have a lot of toolbars running there matey :O(

Toolbar: &Windows Live Toolbar - {21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O3 - Toolbar: MSN Toolbar - {1E61ED7C-7CB8-49d6-B9E9-AB4C880C8414} - C:\Program Files\MSN\Toolbar\3.0.0988.2\msneshellx.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Kiwee Toolbar - {6638A9DE-0745-4292-8A2E-AE530E7B9B3F} - C:\Program Files\Kiwee Toolbar\2.8.167\KiweeIEToolbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Google Toolbar - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar.dll

I wout squash a few that will speed you up a bit more .

you have a lot of proseses runing that are not needed .....

Kill some of these in start menu ( Type in run : msconfig )it will speed you up a bit.

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VTTimer] VTTimer.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [S3Trayp] S3trayp.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Motive SmartBridge] C:\PROGRA~1\BTHOME~1\Help\SMARTB~1\BTHelpNotifier.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [btbb_wcm_McciTrayApp] C:\Program Files\btbb_wcm\McciTrayApp.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [YBrowser] C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\browser\ybrwicon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroFilterCheck] C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TkBellExe] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe" -osboot
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Sony Ericsson PC Suite] "C:\Program Files\Sony Ericsson\Mobile2\Application Launcher\Application Launcher.exe" /startoptions
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows Defender] "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Yahoo! Pager] "C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\YAHOOM~1.EXE" -quiet
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [BgMonitor_{79662E04-7C6C-4d9f-84C7-88D8A56B10AA}] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\lib\NMBgMonitor.exe"

is this thread still active?

There are so many others having the same problem. It's like 2 IEXPLORER.EXE processes, one of them is bigger than the other one in terms of memory, and whenever you terminate each one, they keep coming back instantly!

It's very annoying, it never goes away!