"This tab has been recovered"

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:36

hi, all of a sudden i am getting these 2 identical pop ups appear about every 10 minutes. i never use internet explorer, i use firefox. how can i get rid of these pop ups?

thanks

EDIT: i just checked in task manager, there was about 20 IE processes running, any ideas?

Caged · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:21

IETab?

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:23

Caged said:
IETab?

I dont have that installed.

Calneon · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:23

Uninstall IE?

EDIT: And then reinstall if you must.

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:25

how do you uninstall IE?, its not in programs...

hohum · 15 Feb 2010 at 11:05

Malware using IE in the background?

Caged · 15 Feb 2010 at 12:00

Something's using IE. Do you have any Active Desktop stuff running at all (don't even know if that's still in Windows to be honest)?

Other than that, do a malware scan.

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 12:14

I haven't run a malware scan, but after a reboot IE isnt open in processes...
if this starts happening again i will run a scan.

thanks for your help

hohum · 15 Feb 2010 at 12:21

You should be running a scan ASAP anyway to rule it out. Why risk having your files destroyed and your personal data stolen in the meantime?

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 12:31

ive ran AVG which hasn't picked anything up.

modo77 · 15 Feb 2010 at 16:42

http://www.malwarebytes.org/ try that
and this http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/ post the results here

Aod · 15 Feb 2010 at 16:50

my Dad's laptop does this too. if you figure out what's causing it please post it here.

manbearpig · 15 Feb 2010 at 17:10

modo77 said:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ try that
and this http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/ post the results here

ive just run this software and it picked up about 5 trogans and 3 other infections, hopefully this will stop the problem recurring.

thanks

Matteysan · 15 Feb 2010 at 17:36

Please get rid of AVG & install a proper Anti Virus like Avira, Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials.

this_is_gav · 15 Feb 2010 at 22:52

I've had it too, and I'm quite sure it wasn't malware, but a dodgy plugin. I don't even use IE other than for Logmein. There are countless reports of this floating around, but no definitive cause.

All I do know is that is that I was having Google searches crash IE (first time I've done it in ages, as I was just looking for the Google Analytics site quickly and wanted to log in with another account to my one in Firefox) and as soon as I hit search, it crashed.

In fixing that, it seems I've fixed the ghostly "this tab has been recovered" message (which appears consistently without a visible window, and before you know it you'll have 100+ iexplore.exe processes in Task Manager).

What I did to fix mine: open up IE, hit alt to bring up the menu, go to Tools > Manage add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions > and disable what you don't need. On mine, enabled was Contribute Toolbar (Adobe Contribute), FDM (Free Download Manager), a Microsoft Groove plugin, "Create Mobile Favorite" and a plugin for SMART (an educational software suite). I disabled all of them (no idea which one caused it). The Sun Java plugin is still enabled on mine, and obviously isn't causing the problem.

For the record, on my system (Win7 x64), going to Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs > Manage Addons didn't bring up the same list, regardless of what was selected in the bottom right-hand corner (for example 'Currently loaded add-ons').

SiriusB · 15 Feb 2010 at 23:11

LogMeIn works just fine in Firefox. Why are you using it in IE? :confused:

this_is_gav · 15 Feb 2010 at 23:14

1) why not? I've got 2 browsers, I might as well use them

2) completely different window sizes, and it allows me to use 2 together (yes, I know I can make another Fx window if needs be, but again, why?)

3) what's on earth has it got to do with this topic? :\