Every time I boot my computer I am seeing an alert from McAfee regarding IE where there is apparently a Buffer Overflow.
The Name of the program is
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe:KERN
Error is detected as: BO:Writable BO:Heap
And McAfee is Blocking the Buffer Overflow
I am wondering how problematic this issue is, as recently I have seen a few IE crashes for no obvious reason. My Hijack log file looks as follows. Would love any help someone might be able to offer. Thanks.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 9:05:18 PM, on 11/9/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer 7
Boot mode: Normal
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Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and update and do a scan with that. It should find the malware and remove it. Looks like some virus has attached itself with your IE installatoin and starts everytime with IE. Try using another browser like Firefox and tell us if you still have the problem. But make sure to scan with the above Anti-Malware, its very effective and powerful.
Hope it helps.
Hi,
This could be some Add-on which is causing the problem, try resetting IE and check again.
How to reset:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/a
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by: surfer24Posted on 2009-03-03 at 13:11:26ID: 23788680
Hi
A solution if you really have bo-heap (8.0 may detect it as false positive, so if you use this version, please first upgrade McAfee):
"Please Download NoLop to your desktop from
http://www.thespykiller.co
First close any other programs you have running as this will require a reboot
Double click NoLop.exe to run it
Now click the button labelled "Search and Destroy"
Your computer will now be scanned for infected files
When scanning is finished you will be prompted to reboot only if infected, Click OK
Now click the "REBOOT" Button.
A Message should popup from NoLop. If not, double click the program again and it will finish
--If you receive an error, "mscomctl.ocx or one of its dependencies are not correctly registered," please download mscomctl.ocx to your system32 folder then rerun the program. -"
from http://forums.techguy.org/
The above solution is from the below link:
http://www.experts-exchang
Regards
Vishnu.