Internet Explorer keeps popping up with adverts/pop ups?

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Hi all,

For some reason Internet Explorer has opened by itself a few times today with pop ups, I don't use it prefering Firefox, any ideas why it is comming on by itself?

Cheers
 
Running a scan now as Itype,

Any of this seem an issue?

The bit highlighted in blue turned itself back on after being taken out the start menu?

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Sounds like spyware, download malwarebytes to a usb pen, turn off system restore, and install it and run it from safe mode.
That'll hopefully eliminate your infection.
 
OK to update,

I had ad-aware, superantispyware, Avira, Mirosoft security, none of which detected it, though Avira and Microsoft found and quarantined a couple of items without stopping the process. Malaware bytes froze without finding or solving initially.

I ended up tracing a couple of apps to the temp folder? You can see the three ones which start with X above. I could not delete these, so I stopped the processes then deleted then cleaned the HD re-started and ran my spyware, Malaware Bytes to be exact, which found the process highlighted in blue in my start menu. I have had no pop ups since deleting the above three apps, I have no idea where they came from, but am dissapointed as it's my fisrt ever PC infection that has caused such bother on W7.

I am wondering if this may have been linked to my being unable to load C&C4 due to Windows Installer 5 going missing, as it seemed it could have have been linked to those directories? And Adobe would not update either last week?

Well fingers crossed!

Cheers guys
 
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