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