Win 7 IE buttons stop working?

[Craig234]

Anyone seen Windows 7 Ultra IE buttons stop working?

They were working, and then I hit back, nothing. Refresh, nothing. But if I use the pulldown to go back, or right-click refresh, it works.

Anyone seen this, why it happens, a fix? Haven't tried 'restarting' yet.

 

[Craig234]

It's getting worse, now typing a URL in the bar is just ignored, and clicking some links is just ignored. Even clicking the tab button to open a new tab is ignored.

Also closing windows doesn't even work. It might clear some of the window's content below the bars but the window stays open. Minimize works though.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

After restarting have you tried to scan for viruses/spyware yet?

 

[Craig234]

After restarting have you tried to scan for viruses/spyware yet?

Finally restarted, as I thought likely that 'fixed' it, but no answer why it happens.

I don't think there are any viruses, it's a new computer barely used, all on full default protections.

 

[Matan Eldan]

It's still sounds like it caused by some malicious program.

I recommend to scan your computer with "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware" + Anti Virus + HijackThis.

You can download Malwarebytes' here:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

You can download HijackThis here:
http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

And you can analyze your scan results with the help of this site:
http://www.hijackthis.de/

 

[RebateMonger]

I saw the same problem last night. My "back", "forward", and "refresh" buttons (maybe others, too) in IE8/Win7 Ultimate quit working. A reboot "fixed" the problem, at least for now.

A bit of research shows that others have seen this same problem.

I installed x32 Win7 Ultimate a week ago and there's very little installed on the PC. PrimoPDF, Steam, and Adobe Reader. That's about it. A HijackThis scan was small and clean (there's basically no third-party add-ins), as was a MalwareBytes scan and an MS Security Essentials full scan.

System Event and Application Event Logs are both very clean.


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Oh, great. I looked at my Security Event log and see this new message about the MalwareBytes program I just downloaded (and ran) from the MalwareBytes.org site:

Log Name: Security
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date: 3/17/2010 1:30:21 PM
Event ID : 5038
Task Category: System Integrity
Level: Information
Keywords: Audit Failure
User: N/A
Computer: xxx.xxx.xxx
Description:
Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid. The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.

File Name: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\mbamswissarmy.sys

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Well, a search seems to show this Security Error is a known issue and probably nothing serious.

 

[Paperlantern]

Ive never experienced this issue, Win7 Ultimate, IE8. I use IE all the time on our company's intranet. Of course anything outside of that and a few client systems is Chrome and Firefox.

 

[RebateMonger]

This year-old thread in an MS Forum indicates some folks have been seeing this problem with IE8 for a year now:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...r/thread/023576dc-51a8-4983-ac7e-e073eb5576ca