closing internet explorer browser window

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I also forgot to mention that when I try to do a quick clean with the Norton
I get a error message that says.... Internet browser is currently loaded,
please close all open browsers before doing quick clean, once again any adice?

"Bamboocat" wrote:

> Hope someone can help, I have been having some difficulty with figuring out
> how to close an open internet explorer browser window, Norton finds this all
> the time and I had ad aware and have just recently removed it for the new
> microsoft ad aware program, but this has been going on before I did all that
> and neither have found anything either. I also recall, it referrs to
> something like active x as well, I did find some active x things under the
> tools and then internet options and got rid of some of them but the problem
> still persists, I also get this thing that looks like something is going to
> open in the toolbar, a white box but then it disappears within a few seconds,
> don't know what it is or how to stop it from trying to open, I think it is
> that open browser window but not really sure. I'm a pretty new computer user
> so please keep the responses very simple, any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.