"The Celtic Warrior" wrote in message

My machine has recently started this behavior. When you click a link
in the text of a newsgroup message, it launches the IE Browswer
window and then the Browser window locks up. It has to be killed from
the task manager. If I copy the same url and paste into a browser, it
never locks up. The webpage does not load. You cannot close the
window or right click on its icon in the task bar.

Is there something about the way OE is calling the IE Browser causing
this behavior?

XPSP2 all updates installed.

It is not something in the way OE is calling the browser. You probably are
infested with malware.
Systematically go through the steps at this site:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware
also see
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html

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