Anyone know of this one

Do you remember the last program/application that you downloaded? It may have come bundled with that PUP.

Let's see if DDS shows us what's going on with IE

Download DDS from one of these links:
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• Disable any script blocking protection
• Double click the dds icon to run the tool.
• When done, DDS will open two (2) logs:
  1. DDS.txt
  2. Attach.txt <--- will be minimized in the task tray
• Save both reports to your desktop.

Include the contents of both logs in your next post.
The scan will instruct you to post Attach.txt as an attachment.

Hum hard one Jacee I will take a look through event viewer as I thin most have been the usuas like Adobe,CC, and MalwareB updates.
OOPs yep I'll try that DDS too

Hiyya Jaycee I only got one report as attached.

My post to you was apparently lost in the 'blitz' last night ... It's too late here now to go over it again, but I will do it tomorrow (I promise). :)

Jacee said:

My post to you was apparently lost in the 'blitz' last night ... It's too late here now to go over it again, but I will do it tomorrow (I promise). :)

Thanks Jaycee no rush:)

You may have a conflict with all these programs running :
Kaspersky Internet Security
Windows Defender
WOT
DoNotTrackPlus
Comodo

After uninstalling Somoto, see if disabling all but Kaspersky (from list above), stops connection problems with IE. You can re-enable one at a time, except Comodo.
Kaspersky and Comodo are going to fight with each other

Jacee said:

You may have a conflict with all these programs running :
Kaspersky Internet Security
Windows Defender
WOT
DoNotTrackPlus
Comodo

After uninstalling Somoto, see if disabling all but Kaspersky (from list above), stops connection problems with IE. You can re-enable one at a time, except Comodo.
Kaspersky and Comodo are going to fight with each other

Thanks Jaycee I only runKIS WOT and Do Not Track on this machine I b=never run two ISS;s alongside eacg other.

I did disable the Do Not Track and it stopped the problem.

I then reinstalled IE9 and out of interest I enabled Don Not Track again but the problem did not start up.

To now everything seems to be going ok - having said that it will probably start up again (better touch wood) so maybe a glitch in IE?:)

This is not going to help your situation, but just a FYI.

I run the paid version of Malwarebytes and it blocked a website and quarantined PUP.BundleInstaller.Somoto at the same time. The problem is, I can't for the life of me remember the website I was attempting to open. It was on February 27th according to MBAM, and I think I accessed it via a link from Google.

No help for you, but it is something that is being passed around now.

To now everything seems to be going ok - having said that it will probably start up again (better touch wood) so maybe a glitch in IE?

It could be a program confilct, so please let us know the outcome after running a couple of days.

Ok cato and Jaycee like you cato I can't remember what I was downloading but in any event I enabled Do Not Track and I have it back so I am guessing it is that app so am going to block it again and see what eventuates.