Internet Explorer crashes

[ReCycled]

Been using IE 6 with all the updates on Windows XP with no problem for 5 years. In the last 3 months it has been crashing routinely on certain sites - the main one being Cnn.com. Tastyspleen is fine as well as many regular sites I visit. Sometimes I won't even get an error message - the application just closes. Once Windows almost gave me a clue saying it didn't like the .ocx file from Flash Player. I uninstalled flash player but no change. I went to Adobe to get their latest version (9) but they wanted money for it. I know Internet Explorer always comes with some version of it. In desperation I upgraded to IE7 (which works fine on my laptop) thinking this should do the trick. I go to CNN and get the message below. Most other sites work fine. White Pages phone directory will also crash IE.
 

 

[X'tyfe]

IE is fail, FF is the future

[UUD-40]

They don't call it Internet Exploder for nothing.

Firefox crashes on me occasionally too.

[Whirlingdervish]

try sending the error report. occasionally they'll link you to a fix for the problem if it's been documented previously and solved by MS.

unfortunately, that doesn't always occur.

A technically feasible solution would be trying to get IE6 working again with a fresh OS install and all the updates..
This can be quite a pain if you have lots of stuff to reinstall tho, so I'd call it an option of last resort.

[|iR|Focalor]

Smells like you got some kind of internet VD. A lot of malicious shit is coded specifically for IE browsers. I've had my older PC do similar things. A browser hijacker of some kind,... possibly... don't quote me. I used to have SHITLOADS of internet VD on my other machine. I couldn't use Yahoo. I'd have Yahoo as my start page, I could search for something and it would send the first page of 20 results, but if I clicked any of the results, the browser would ALWAYS crash.

I guess what this type of "malware" does is prevent you from browsing certain content. Hehe, kinda like the e-mafia. They stand outside the mall with baseball bats guarding the doors and telling everyone, "We don' care where ya shop, buttchya can't shop here, prick!"

Try getting a few different antivirus and anti-spyware/malware progs. Run at least 2. Often times one particular AV will miss something that another one will catch.

[ReCycled]

Smells like you got some kind of internet VD. A lot of malicious shit is coded specifically for IE browsers. I've had my older PC do similar things. A browser hijacker of some kind,... possibly... don't quote me. I used to have SHITLOADS of internet VD on my other machine. I couldn't use Yahoo. I'd have Yahoo as my start page, I could search for something and it would send the first page of 20 results, but if I clicked any of the results, the browser would ALWAYS crash.

I guess what this type of "malware" does is prevent you from browsing certain content. Hehe, kinda like the e-mafia. They stand outside the mall with baseball bats guarding the doors and telling everyone, "We don' care where ya shop, buttchya can't shop here, prick!"

Try getting a few different antivirus and anti-spyware/malware progs. Run at least 2. Often times one particular AV will miss something that another one will catch.

I was kind of thinking some kind of malware and I had a very good spyware remover (BBS I think) but the application caught on that I never bought it, so it expired. But for safety's sake I think I may need to bite the bullet and take Whirly's advice and do a complete re-install. Its been 5 years and I probably have junk embedded in there. Gees, all that tedious copying files over to my portable HD. And then all the setup after.....
 

[RRBM [NL]]

Or you can try to reinstall only Internet Explorer :

IE7 :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ae91ebe-3385-447c-8a30-081805b2f90b&DisplayLang=en

IE6 :
http://www.petri.co.il/download_the_full_ie_package.htm

IEFix 1.6 for IE6:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Adobe Flash Player :
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Adobe Shockwave Player :
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

Java :
http://java.com/getjava/

And use a good free antispyware and antivirus program :

Dr.Web CureIt (antivirus  no need to install it  just doubleclick it  ) :
http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/

Superantispyware (antispyware program  ) :
http://www.superantispyware.com/

[ĄƦçɧąɳɠҾԼ]

Good rule to follow is to have your data on a separate partition than what your OS is on, that way when you go to format and re-install you don't even touch your data.

Also the further away you get from Microsoft's products the better off you will be, I'd suggest using either Firefox or Opera for a browser.  Hopefully one day you will ween yourself off the OS as well.

Anyway, back in my days of Windows, I used AVG Anti-virus, Spybot S+D, and AdAware SE, and I never had any problems what so ever.  Also used Firefox as my main browser.

[reaper]

use Firefox : )

[ReCycled]

I re-installed BPS Spyware Remover - an older version I've had in my software directory. It removed a few cookies from the usual area and now I can get into CNN without crashing. Problem appears to be fixed, whatever it was. I periodically delete all temp files, cookies and history but this had no effect previously. I dunno....but it worked.
    

[Art]

Several instances of IE crashe when I close a browser window with a youtube video running. It doesn't happen if I pause the video first. Just can't get some of those videos off my monitor fast enough. 

I've also had firefox crash, but randomly.