IE running non-stop?

[TheOtherOption]

I seem to have acquired a process that claims to be iexplorer.exe which runs all the time my pc is on and when i kill it it'll just restart and it hovers between about 60-80mb of ram use ...

There is also another iexplorer.exe running which seems to eat about 10mb of ram :/

I'm guessing its a virus of some kind or something as i hardly ever use IE so theres no reason for it to be running !

Is there a way to kill it for good ? I've done a virus scan and nothing untoward has been picked up so I can't see what it could be!

TIA >.<

 

[TheOtherOption]

Ah, cheers guys - i gathered as much - it does indeed give me pop-ups when i do use IE - such as msn opening my inbox and so on ... and FF too for that matter!

Shall Ad-Aware its ass !

 

[TheOtherOption]

Well i've run ad-aware and it found about 37 items which i had it remove but the process is still running, any ideas on how to stop it manually ? wheres it likely to be located ?