I have 1.3 ghz amd, 736 mb ram, XP home-sp2, 80 gb hd.
For the last few days my web pages have been very slow to download, taking from 30 sec. to several minutes. I tried firefox and it's the same thing. eventually the program closes and I get the message:
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library. Buffer overrun detected! Program: C:\program files\Internet explorer\iexplore.exe A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution and must now be terminated."
I googled for advice and got all sorts of strange results, causing me to uninstall and reinstall java, internet explorer and XP itself. I've run macafee, AVG, bit defender, Spy Sweeper, Ad-aware,Stinger and housecall. Some of them I ran several times. They found a virus or two but now the problem still exists. I don't get the buffer overrun message anymore but Microsoft explorer and Internet explorer are very slow operating. I uninstalled Firefox but now I get an error message when trying to reinstall.
I entered this on TSGL and they didn't give me any useful advice. can anyone please tell me where to go from here?
Reformatting is not an option at this time, I have too many app's which would be hard to replace. engineman