Hello,

If somebody can please help me I would be most grateful.

I only use Firefox, unless it appears the page I am viewing will not display properly. In such a case I view that page in IE.

Yesterday I thought the page I was viewing in Firefox might not be displaying properly, so I viewed such page in IE. When I viewed the page in IE two or three other windows popped up (I believe it was just two windows that popped up, but I am not sure) and IE froze and stopped responding. I managed to shut IE down by way of the taskbar, but it took a about 30 seconds for me to get it to shut down (I had to repeatedly shut IE down using the End Program dialog box before IE actually shut down).

I am concerned the page I viewed in IE took advantange of the IE CreateTextRange Remote Code Execution Vulnerability and has infected my computer.

1) Does anybody know how I can tell if I have been infected?

2) If I have been infected what can I do about it? Would antivirus programs (like Norton Antivirus 2006) or spyware programs (like SpySweeper) identify and remove such an infection? Once Microsoft issues a patch for the vulnerability will that remove the infection (assuming I have been infected)?

Thank you to anybody who can help me.

Have a nice day, Chris