Internet Explorer opening sandboxed

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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The past few months, when I open IE it automatically opens with an avast! sandbox window surrounding it. This sandbox is preventing IE from working at all; the program just crashes without loading anything. I can’t even open the settings from the IE window; I have to go to Internet Options in the control panel. This is surprising to me, because I didn’t know the free version of avast came with a sandbox feature. This doesn’t happen when I use Firefox or Chrome. I looked at other threads, and when I make a shortcut on the desktop, there is an orange lock on IE, as other forum posters have mentioned. Right clicking on the IE icon does not give me the option to not open sandboxed.

I’m using the free version of avast! 8.01489 on a Windows 7 system. As far as I know, Internet Explorer is up to date. It crashes before I can check what version it use through help/about, but avast’s program updated claims it’s version 10.0.9200.16660.

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Oh, and I just ran the repair function on Avast and that didn’t solve the problem. =-p

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I think your problem may lay elsewhere as the free version of avast does not sandbox browsers, there is the auto sandbox but that is a completely different feature used for suspicious files.

Have you tried removing avast to see if the problem still remains ?

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That fixed it, thanks! Hopefully when i reinstall avast I won’t get this problem again. =-p