Could this be a virus?

[paxtonwife]

THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY CAN SOMEONE HELP? i have windows vista... and recently probably the last couple weeks i have been getting an error page that keeps popping up... sometimes 6 pages at a time or more... this is what it says...

HEADING: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IELowutil.exe

C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Local\Temp\.
Atemporary file needed for initalization could not be created or couldnt be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists and disk spas is available. choose "close" to terminate the application.

I have ran adaware, malware, reg cleaner and mcafee, I have done a soft boot from the operating system disk, updated my drivers and reset internet explorer... I am at a loss at to what to do next... and confused because I have a 32 bit system. Help =)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Did you run malwarebytes free edition!try it!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Sorry get it here!

 

[paxtonwife]

yes and adaware and fre registry cleaner and smart defrag and spybot s&d as well as mcafee and windows defender.. lol im about out of ideas. =)

 

[digitalprospecter]

Hi paxtonwife,

IELowutil.exe is part of Internet Explorer 8. You might want to uninstall IE8 using Control Panel->Programs & Features and then try reinstalling it again.

 

[paxtonwife]

Hi paxtonwife,

IELowutil.exe is part of Internet Explorer 8. You might want to uninstall IE8 using Control Panel->Programs & Features and then try reinstalling it again.

after uninstalling that... how do i reinstall if i cant get on the internet? lol could be messenger too i had checked my email through messenger and it happened again. i am so frustrated with this .. time to go to linux

 

[digitalprospecter]

Uninstalling IE8 should roll you back to IE7, so you can still get on the Internet. However, if you really want to be sure of an Internet connection you can download and install Firefox Web Browser before you uninstall IE8, then you will still have a browser to connect to the web.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html

 

[paxtonwife]

ok i am at this moment downloading firefox... my brother has been bugging me forever to do that anyway... unfortionately all my classes are IE based.. lol so here we go I will keep you posted... going to uninstall messenger to just in case then reinstall.. =) ty ty

 

[digitalprospecter]

Let me know how it goes. Firefox is nice, and you should use it for general web surfing, but I also use Internet Explorer to remain compatible with necessary websites.

 

[paxtonwife]

i dont see explorer in my programs and features... how do i uninstall it?

 

[paxtonwife]

=) I am a student at ITT Tech and all my web based classes are through explorer... need to restart now =)

 

[digitalprospecter]

Look for "Windows Internet Explorer 8", rather than Internet Explorer.

 

[paxtonwife]

=) OK done. we shall see now... I'm not going to bother updating to IE8.... unless i absolutely have to... so I will let you know... happens several times a day so if it doesn't happen again by tomorrow we will know that that was the problem. looking at the date that it was installed on that may actually have been about the time the pop-ups started.. Thank you =)

 

[digitalprospecter]

No problem. Let me know how it turns out.

 

[paxtonwife]

DIGITAL YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT ON MY PROBLEM... UNINSTALLING IE8 HELPED.. SINCE THE UNINSTALL THE MS DOS WINDOWS HAVE NOT COME BACK... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =)

 

[digitalprospecter]

No problem, glad that helped.

Good luck with your studies and please don't forget to select a Best Answer in this thread so other people with the same problem will see that your question is marked solved!

Cheers!

 

[paxtonwife]

Best answer selected by paxtonwife.

 

[digitalprospecter]

Thanks!