All My Web Browsers Are Crashing

[techguyboy]

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and every time I surf the web my browsers crashe and the weird thing is that it happens to all of them except Avant. This is what happens to the browsers:

Internet Explorer 7
I surf the web and its so slow, when I click to download something you know that it asks you if you want to save it or open it, well for that to appear it takes like 5 minutes and then when its almost done it says "Program Not Responding and it needs to close".

FireFox
When I try to download something and I click save, an error comes up saying "The Filepicker was closed by Windows" and then it crashes.

Opera
I surf the web and sometimes it says "Program Not Responding" and it crashes.

The only browser that is working fine is Avant. I really don't know whats wrong with my laptop. I scanned my computer with NOD32 and its clean. But sometimes when I surf the web with firefox Inter Explorer 7 opens up and it opens like 20 tabs, making my computer go really slow but there is no url it only says a lot of letters and the final thing that it says in the adress bar is .exe. Please guys help me out. Is this a Virus, Spyware or what?

Thank You

[dazofdarlo]

sounds like a virus or something is ur vista genuine ?

[techguyboy]

Yeah is genuine and activated. Right now I am doing a scan with CA Anti Virus, I'll let you guys know what happens.
Thank You

[Raymond]

sounds like a virus or spyware.

Try scanning with antispyware programs. I've written a comprehensive list of free anti-spywares.
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...ware-scanners/

[techguyboy]

Thanks Ray and dazofdarlo for your help. my laptop was not infected with a virus but I had some c-r-a-c-k-s and some k-e-y-g-e-n-s saved in my computer so I just deleted them and now it works fine.
Thank You

[Raymond]

Most of cracks and keygens from popular cracking groups are stable.

I've seen some crappy cracks made by some unknown people and will make a computer unstable.

As for some crack distribution site, some of them embed another file into the archive. Once you run the file, it'll install spyware. So be very careful.

[techguyboy]

ok Raymond, thanx for the info.