Hi folks! Victag here.

[Victag]

Hi Gang!

I'm a retired IT professional with some PC-related skills - but apparently not nearly enough! But I have worked with PCs since I started in the business back in '84.

I've run into a problem that I hope I can get some help with. It looks like IE is propagating instances of dllhost.exe*32. I scanned with AV, but nothing shows. Utilization quickly hits 100%, so I'm dead in the water if I use IE (I'm using Firefox in the meanwhile.

Anyway - very glad to have this community available.

Vic from New Jersey

 

[OneDay]

Hello, sir..
Welcome to MalwareTips!!

 

[Shaun]

Hi Gang!

I'm a retired IT professional with some PC-related skills - but apparently not nearly enough! But I have worked with PCs since I started in the business back in '84.

I've run into a problem that I hope I can get some help with. It looks like IE is propagating instances of dllhost.exe*32. I scanned with AV, but nothing shows. Utilization quickly hits 100%, so I'm dead in the water if I use IE (I'm using Firefox in the meanwhile.

Anyway - very glad to have this community available.

Vic from New Jersey

Hi Vic,

What version of windows are you running?

I have noticed that on my windows 8 IE has so many problems i just kept using FF. I have seamonkey as backup. I prefer FF anyway

Shaun

 

[Victag]

Hi Vic,

What version of windows are you running?

I have noticed that on my windows 8 IE has so many problems i just kept using FF. I have seamonkey as backup. I prefer FF anyway

Shaun

Hi Shaun,

I'm running Win 7 Home Premium. I had to google Seamonkey - so now I really feel out of the loop - lol.

Vic

 

[Shaun]

Hi Shaun,

I'm running Win 7 Home Premium. I had to google Seamonkey - so now I really feel out of the loop - lol.

Vic

lol i love sea monkey. Did you change anything or install any plugins or ( i've forgotten the name ) on IE?

Sorry total mind blank now XD

 

[Dima007]

Welcome to MT

 

[Victag]

lol i love sea monkey. Did you change anything or install any plugins or ( i've forgotten the name ) on IE?

Sorry total mind blank now XD

The only things I remember were some Windows updates and an Adobe Flash Player update.

 

[YuanJiawj]

hello and welcome @Victag to MalwareTips forum! Enjoy ur stay here

 

[Shaun]

The only things I remember were some Windows updates and an Adobe Flash Player update.

Could be a windows update then?

 

[silversurfer]

Welcome to MalwareTips!

 

[tonibalas]

welcome to MT and hope to enjoy this great forum

 

[toffee]

Hi! Welcome to MT!

 

[Exterminator]

Welcome to MT Thanks for joining!!

 

[barti]

Welcome to MT!

 

[Victag]

Could be a windows update then?

Yes, could be - but for some reason I'm more suspicious of one of those pop-ups you get sometimes to "clean" your PC. I might have gotten one and closed it instead of killing it.

 

[jamescv7]

Welcome to the community!

 

[NSG001]

Greetings @Victag
Hope you find this forum useful