Rundll32.exe and rundll32.exe *32


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Windows 7 64bit

This is a non coh problem but I figured someone here might be able to help.

I was about to open up firefox yesterday and it would crash as soon as I clicked the icon. I tried IE and it would do the same. I could open xfire and mids but both would get kinda unstable. Teamspeak and ventrilo worked just fine however.

My first thought was oh man... my harddrive is going bad or I have some sort of virus. Did a virus scan with kaspersky, nothing bad found. So then I checked my active processes.
Sometime or other something has caused these 2 processes to appear. Before all I had was 'Rundll32.exe' or the other 'rundll32.exe *32'. I can't recall which but I didn't have both of them. Now when I startup my computer I have to end the process of one or the other just to use firefox or internet explorer. Both programs crash immediately upon execution. Once I close either or they both usually close and at that point I can launch and use firefox or IE without any problems.

Has anyone else run into this problem before? What might have caused it? The only recent recent software that I had installed was microsoft silverlight and I promptly uninstalled it figuring it was the issue. I don't leave my computer on usually and I have automatic windows updates disabled to keep crap like this was happening at a bad time. Since some windows updates in the past have broken things in the operating system, caused coh to crash or caused blue screening.


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Rundll32.exe is a generic process for executing code so it could be "hosting" just about anything.

Give http://live.sysinternals.com/autoruns.exe a run and it should help you identify what is loading the rundll32 processes at startup.

You could also use http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe to check live.

It sounds like either Malware or buggy drivers/browser plugins offhand.


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