IE7, shortcuts and property sheets

When closing IE7 then
clicking on any other shortcut on the desktop it brings up that shortcuts
property sheet instead of opening that application. You can right click,
choose open and that will work but not the way I want to do it.

If after closing IE7 you bring up the taskmanager windows you can see two
instances of dllhost.exe running. As soon as those close ( by themselves
) the shortcuts again work as expected. I am not saying that the
dllhost.exe is what it causing this but it sure seems strange that the
shortcuts work again after they close.

Anyone seen anything like this or know of a fix?

 

Hello Dennis,

Are they both running from \Windows\System32? Any other location indicates malware.

Two links on dllhost.exe:

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/dllhost.exe.html

http://www.netdummy.net/dllhost.html


Another possibility is an Add-on that's causing this.

IE7 Tools > Manage Add-ons and disable them. If it works, then re enable one by one.

Regards - Charles

 

They both say System under username. I tried the Add-On route the other day. That was my first thought. I disabled them all and this still happened.

 

The locations should be:

C:\Windows\System32, Prefethch entries, and C:\Windows\winsxs...

Should be running from the System32 location.

You should treat this as a possible malware infection.

Please download HijackThis!
SetUp from http://downloads.malwareremoval.com/HJTsetup.exe
Save the file to your desktop.

Double-click the HijackThis!
SetUp icon to begin the installation.

Follow the prompts for the default install location of:'C:\Program Files\HijackThis'.

Tick the 'Create a desktop' button when the option appears.
Select next, then allow HijackThis! to start.

Then press the [Scan] button.
You will notice the [Scan] button will turn into a [Save Log] button.

Click the [Save Log] button and notepad will open up with the contents of the scan.

Right-click in the saved log, and select 'copy'.

Post the results in a new thread in the Virus and spyware removal section with a link back to this thread.

A staff person will close this thread.

Regards - Charles

 

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