computer help

[homersipes]

My wife uses internet explorer and I use fire fox just to keep passwords and stuff remembered.  My firefox works flawlessly but her IE doesnt   anything she goes on gets a TON of pop ups and a security message that says
internet explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificates
I am not sure where to start trying to fix as my browser works great, PC works great, I have tried to update IE but it already has 10 on it.  We have Kasperky and have scanned it, shows nothing on the scans but the vulnerabilities scan came up with 21 all on IE.  any ideas?? thanks

[RedBull1]

I knew I'd get a chance to use this one eventually.

[homersipes]

 

[dedalos]

My wife uses internet explorer and I use fire fox just to keep passwords and stuff remembered.  My firefox works flawlessly but her IE doesnt   anything she goes on gets a TON of pop ups and a security message that says
internet explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificates
I am not sure where to start trying to fix as my browser works great, PC works great, I have tried to update IE but it already has 10 on it.  We have Kasperky and have scanned it, shows nothing on the scans but the vulnerabilities scan came up with 21 all on IE.  any ideas?? thanks

Try removing any addons or tool bars.  I had the same problem with firefox after my daughter installed some tool bars on it.  Everything on utube was getting blocked.

[Dragon]

[MrRiplEy[H]]

My wife uses internet explorer and I use fire fox just to keep passwords and stuff remembered.  My firefox works flawlessly but her IE doesnt  anything she goes on gets a TON of pop ups and a security message that says
internet explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificates
I am not sure where to start trying to fix as my browser works great, PC works great, I have tried to update IE but it already has 10 on it.  We have Kasperky and have scanned it, shows nothing on the scans but the vulnerabilities scan came up with 21 all on IE.  any ideas?? thanks

Go to the IE settings, turn all the security tabs to max (which will make it pretty much unusable). Then teach her to use firefox instead. If she gets popups etc. from regular sites your computer is most likely infected with malware even if you don't notice it from anything else. Kaspersky or other traditional antiviruses won't find them usually. If I was you I would reinstall the OS and make sure only Firefox with adblock and noscript addons was used.

Adblock is important also for security because many times ads are used for attacks, the content delivery network is hacked and exploit code injected to the ads which are displayed on regular sites in place of what should be just regular harmless (if you can call any ad that) ads.

[ebfd11]

I personally use Palemoon now... try them and you should heve no problems

LawnDart

[Bizman]

If you're using the same profile, it's IE. If you're using separate profiles, it's the Internet settings in her profile. Internet settings are mostly user specific, letting each user have the amount of Browser Helper Objects (BHO) one can tolerate...

There's a nice little tool called Spy BHO remover, available for free at http://www.securityxploded.com/bhoremover.php. Run it with administrative privileges to get rid of unwanted BHO's in IE.

One problem with IE is that it used to be very non-standard. The dominating market share of it made page makers code in two different manners, both the standard and the IE way. The code would sniff which version would suit better. Although the new IE versions have become more standard I guess that many older sites offer the non-standard page for any IE version, causing conflicts. There has also been a couple of security certificate issues during the last half year or so, which have necessarily not been properly updated. As has been said, teach her to use another browser.

[smoe]

Question: Is your IE still running?

[homersipes]

yeah IE is still working, thanks a million bizman, she had 3 backdoor trojans.  Kinda strange it only affected IE and nothing else.   got it all cleared out and working again, now shes happy

[smoe]

yeah IE is still working

That's good, but I was hoping you would of just said "yes" or "yes it is still running" cause then I would have replied "well you better go and catch it."

[homersipes]

hahahaa

[Bizman]

yeah IE is still working, thanks a million bizman, she had 3 backdoor trojans.  Kinda strange it only affected IE and nothing else.   got it all cleared out and working again, now shes happy

The reason that it only affected IE might be sloppy use of the term "Bacdoor Trojan". I mean, if you found them with the BHO remover, they are often browser specific. A Browser Helper Object might not have anything to do with trojans or other viruses, they are just marketing devices trying to figure out your interests and offer alternatives from the companies who pay them for advertising. Terms like "trojan" with the prefix "spying" makes the cleaning programs sound more effective and important than they really are. Again, it's a matter of marketing.

You might want to check your computer with some third party scanner for hiding objects, though. The Eset Online Scanner has proved to be quite efficient for both viruses and other potentially unwanted things. Just make sure that before you start scanning, open the Advanced options and check for scanning both for potentially unwanted and potentially unsafe applications. The scan would take about an hour and a quarter.