explorer.exe eating memory like crazy

You have an addon in Explorer installed which generates dynamically code (shown as ?!? in WPA) and calls HTML functions to load flash (Flash64_15_0_0_189.ocx):

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And Flash causes the Memory Allocation (KernelBase.dll!VirtualAlloc).

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