Ahh...Windows Explorer is crashing every time I do something involving it...

[Tomoyo]

This sucks... I have a sneaking suspicion that it's some weird spyware thing, but I'm too stupid to find out or do anything about it.

It just pops up with the message that Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and is shutting down.

 

[AceChilla]

If it's a spyware thingy try using adaware to kill it, yo can download it here: http://www.lavasoft.com/

But the firefox fanboys will soon advice you something else

 

[Zakharov]

This isn't spyware, it's a worm. Would I be correct in assuming the error message says something about a Remote Procedure Call?

You should run an anti-virus scan asap. It is likely the worm has disabled your anti-virus program so you should try this online scan from Trend Micro:

LINK

 

[Tomoyo]

Zakharov, I ran Norton and well... Norton found some stuff, and it was unable to delete them, but afterwards, it worked just fine.

But no, it said nothing about a remote procedure call.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

By any chance have you been trying to use video files. Some video files that haven't been compressed properly cause Windows explorer to crash when I try to start them. The only way I could fix it was to decompress and then recompress it myself. Which takes a significant amount of hard drive space.