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I've been have the same problem, mines slightly different though, I have the computer in sleep mode right now just so I could research what the problem and how to fix it and it lead me here. From reading over the thread and other ones I can skip over how I think I came to get it in detail, put short I was browsing websites and when I closed a popup ad my problems started, I've yet to act on any info in the thread because my problem like I said is slightly different.
I get the second explorer.exe popping up, constantly increasing the amount of RAM its using until I kill it manually, it stays down for a few minutes, unless I have internet explorer open, in which case it automatically just comes back, and always loads ctfloader (ctfmon.exe) with it, if I kill the actual explorer.exe it goes with it, and I can operate the computer as normal as it wont restart until I run explorer.exe.
I tried doing windows updates and updating other software before I put the computer into sleep mode but here's the part where things get slightly different, my AV Avast constantly detects and stops connections to various urls, categorizing them as malware (Thankfully I always set antivirus's to max sensitivity and to scan stuff even if it causes slow down), it stops them so that's great, the problem there are probably 13-15 connections every minute its stopping, so my desktop gets bombarded with notices whenever explorer.exe is running, and with avasts audio queues, it causes the worrier in you just to kill explorer.exe to stop it.
So this is where I run into my problem, I don't want to run explorer.exe out of worries it might backdoor in something worse since my situation is a little different from everybody else it seems, but at the same time in order to try anything, I really need explorer.exe. I was thinking of doing a boot time scan, but that cache 22 of being worried something worse might happen if I give whatever this is a chance at my computer on shutdown/startup.