Help & advice please - could this be a virus?

 
I wonder if anybody recognises, or knows what might be causing this pop-up:
 

 
It's been appearing every now and then in Internet Explorer 10 for a couple of days now.
 
As it takes focus away from the screen below, I have to select 'No' to carry on using IE.
 
The add-on Toolbars I have (knowingly) installed on IE are as follows:

• Avast
• Google
• Nectar Points
• AVG

I've run RKill and a full Malwarebytes scan but to no avail.
 
If it helps at all, RKill terminated these processes:

• C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Local\Akamai\netsession_win.exe
• C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Local\Akamai\netsession_win.exe
• C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\IELowutil.exe

 
Thanks in advance of any help and advise as to what to do, or how to find out what is causing this pop-up to appear or where I should look to find it on my PC.
 
(Windows 7 64bit)

Hi,
 
Honestly, you do not need toolbars like those listed and I would remove them from your computer.
 
I don't get it. If your computer is for music, why do you have those addons on it? It will hurt, however minimally, your processing power ability ... while also taking up time on your connection.
 
Take ALL of those extra addons out! Watch your computer behave just fine! I can not understand how we can be so gullible about some tool for our computers that supposedly makes you take a **** easier!

dubdisciple
My guess is that some toolbar came bundled with software and is technically not a virus. It may just be one of the toolbars you know of updating itself. Try uninstalling all the ones you listed and see if the popups stop.

You can go to the Control Panel and remove most of these. However, the ones inbedded into a program are more difficult. Ex: Nvidia has the "Experience" thing which is not needed. Ex: Google has 10k addons, and you don't need any of them as they only make sure they get the hits they want to collect their money!.

Well any legitimate programmer who either fails to indicate in the popup which application is generating it (all too common but nonetheless really bad practice) or assumes that he has written the only version of anything that might be referred to as "toolbar," deserves to have it ignored. It does sound very suspicious of being malware. I would not download any update announced in this manner

 
Thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it
 
So far, I've uninstalled IE10 and rolled back to IE9, and I haven't had the pop-up appear since.
 
I'll try re-installing IE10 (or maybe 11) and see if it reappears.
 
 
 
 

craigb
One of the reasons I'm still running IE9 though I'm also having to run FireFox for some sites that are no longer compatible with IE9 (like my bank and the site I use to create a client's online store).
 
Gotta love progress.  NOT.

I think I've rolled back IE10 four or five times for various reasons Craig. It doesn't seem to like my computer for some reason. On the first couple of occasions I went back to IE8 but as you mention, compatibility is often a problem when you haven't got the latest version.
 
I actually quite like IE10, especially as it's the first version of IE that flags up spelling mistakes, and offers corrections via right click.
 
I tried IE11, but there are a couple of things I'm not too fond of. Firstly, the Compatibility button never appears in the address window - the only way to toggle it on and off is through the Tools menu. Also, I occasionally use F12 to bring up the Developer Tools as in IE10 this allows you to temporarily choose IE7, IE8 or IE9 Browser Mode. In IE11, the F12 stuff has been completely reworked, and (last time I checked) there is no option to change the browser mode.
 
I quite like Google Chrome, especially the way Tabs work compared to IE or Firefox. The only reason I stick with IE is because I use the Google Toolbar a lot, and for some unfathomable reason, you can't install the Google Toolbar in Google Chrome