internet explorer wont work?

Question

ok this problem happen when i got back from thanksgiving
when you tryed to open internet explorer it crashed and a report error message came up

i have a strong feeling something bad is wrong with the computer spybot ad aware and nortan didn't come up with anything im not that good at computers but not a complete idiot i went to look through the hard drive to see if there was some thing obvious in the first window the one with documents and settings and programs i found this file
a3da123e0dbf2c330db6fe0
it had some weird files in it
the same ones as internet explorer even .exe but the only difference was that these seemed totally unless i think someone hijacked our computer when we were gone (my dad was home...)
if anyone can provide any help please do so

windows xp sp2
ie 7
a ping www.yahoo.com showed that there is a connection and our other computer with a shared connection worked also firefox works too but i think theres something really wrong about the computer.....

firefox doesn't solve the problem the computers broke i wanna know if anyone knows why its broken

Answer 1

Internet explorer 7 is still full of bugs. I would recomend the use of Internet explorer 6 until vista comes out then the bugs should be somewhat fix to use Internet explorer 7.

If you are concern what is the error message? Explorer has generated an error?

Recomendations: Disk clean up, registry cleaner, http://ccleaner.com defragment, remove all programs that you do not use or want anymore. *Some applications does not work well with IE 7 it could be a plug in issue or some kind of other issue that was installed in Internet Explorer 6 but not compatiable with IE 7

If you paranoid that someone did something to your computer then you can use this: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

Answer 2

I might be wrong, but i belive the file "a3da123e0dbf2c330db6fe0" is for windows xp registration and is not the problem.

If internet explorer 7 is not working correctly (unable to launch, and crashing) then you should try to re install it.

Did you have the same problem with IE6? if not I would recomend using IE6.

as far as someone getting on your computer, make sure norton and spybot are up to date, and you have all windows updates. Also it might be a good idea to install a free anti virus checker just to be sure.

when in doubt... i always reformat and start over again with a clean virus free slate.

hope this helps

Answer 3

I can give you a link that deals with the internet connection Many of the problems can be solved by making software changes or small hardware corrections. Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yl62gz Try here if you can get what you wanted

Answer 4

I have had the same spybot thing come up and it is a virus.. make sure you get rid of it fast... try to get these from the store and not on the internet. Most are viruses.

Answer 5

use firefox...safer and easier to use.