what the hell is wrong with my computer?

[Angrymarshmello]

My computer at work runs Win2K. Everytime I try to connect to a site in internet explorer, about 10 new windows will open up instantly, then close, then 20 open up, then close, and so on. The only way to stop it is by going to task manager and shutting it down. It only happens when I connect to a site - just opening IE on it's own doesn't trigger this event.

I ran Norton Antivirus, nothing. Checked the start up files, cleared the temp. internet files, still the same thing happens. I tried looking manually through all the folders on the hard drive and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Tried looking for instances if IExplore in the registry but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. This happens on all user accounts on that computer, not just mine, so it's not limited to just my account.

The site that crap keeps pulling up is:

http://69.20.5.22

Which is hosted on rackspace.com. I sent them an email but I'd still like to know wtf is going on with my machine. Anyone here have any idea?

 

[EyeMWing]

Speak to your IT dept. Probably somthing that THEY did.

 

[Zee]

adaware is the way to go!

http://www.lavasoft.de/

 

[Kelemvor]

DOwnload SPYBOT - Search & Destroy.

Works great.
Linky (scroll down)

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Thanks for the ideas....I'll have to burn it on a cd tonight since the IE thing won't let me surf the net

 

[freakflag]

Operator error.


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