Whatever iexplore.exe on your processes on your task manager is, virus, spyware or real IE, and is bothering you and slowing down your computer by using huge amount of CPU, if you are using another browser like firefox , the best is to right click on any iexplore.exe on your task manager and choose end process...you will be surprised how faster and smoother your computer is afterwards...you can create an icon to do all of that by one click ..google this "How Do I Kill All the iexplore.exe Processes at Once?" it will show you how
I have a dell with windows vista and starting hearing random radio clips and ads on my pc speakers. I have traced it to a process called iexplore.exe. When I end it, it just comes back in a few minutes. I have read about others with the same problem, but seen no explanation of how to resolve/remove it. I got malwarebytes and ran a scan. It didn't pick it up. Any ideas?

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