What would cause your PC to tell you an illegal error has occurred and the computer will now shut down while on any legitimate website?

Answer 1

This is a very open ended question. There could be many causes for such a problem. Generally when I see a problem of this nature start happening out of the blue without any intentional changes to the system it's usually spyware, adware, or similar applications eating up memory and crashing internet explorer. I would start by trying to determine if you have such programs running. You can view the tasks running by the keystrokes ctrl-alt-delete. Depending on which OS you have you may have to click "Task Manager" option if you're running 2000/XP otherwise it will automatically bring up the current tasks. You should do this immediately after boot up of your system to see what normally is running. In Windows 9x/Me all you are required to have running is "Explorer" and "Systray" you can "end task" everything else and you machine will run just fine. Of course some of those programs may be things such as viruscanner, of which hopefully you have, and soundcard applications, CD writer applications, etc. If you are computer literate enough you can write down each task showing and successfully search for the items online to determine there purpose. There are many spyware/adware apps that appear as Bargain (bargain buddy), bxx5, among others. Also viruses may show up as a task. If your not sure what the tasks running are try the internet. Someone has written about it before. If it's spyware/adware you can probably find out how to remove it from there as well. Good Luck, -Shawn