Dozens of iexplore.exe processes running

Dozens of iexplore.exe processes running

Last night we had an issue with our SQL server cluster and I had to restart the ADaudit service this morning. When I logged into the server, I see dozens of iexplore.exe processes running. Some are x86, some are x64 (determined by the path of the executable running) and each is taking up close to 4MB of space. None appear to have a network connection active. Why is this happening and how can we stop it? I've seen this before so it seems to be some kind of bug.
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