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when im looking on the net i keep getting a pop up saying something like windows explorer needs to close sorry for any inconvenience etc then it closes anything im looking at, as you can imagine this is quite annoying!
i use a bt home hub and its only started doing it recently,anybody else had the same problem and how did you fix it?

first thing to check, done a spyware scan?

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html - is free a fairly good.

Also use firefox, not IE

Do you use a popup blocker, if not it may be this, which basically a bug in IE that causes it to close when two pop ups try to open at the same time, it tells about it here and the fix:

http://kbalertz.com/884838/receive-Inte ... rvice.aspx

Or i got this from a Geek forum

1> START > CONTROL PANEL - Ensure that you are in Classic Mode
2> Double click on INTERNET OPTIONS
3> Select the ADVANCED tab
4> Under BROWSING, remove the check from ENABLE THIRD PARTY BROWSER EXTENSIONS
5> Click on APPLY, then OK
6> Reboot your computer

Or finally follow this microsoft link to repair or reinstall Internet Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=318378

Thats after following Tom's advice and doing a spyware scan, there are loads of free scanners out there

you guys are legends thankyouuuuuuuuuuu

And last but not least any problem that has just started can sometimes be sorted by doing a system restore to a time before the problem started. hope these all help