Depends on who you ask, but it seems to be in your case. If you uninstall
it does the problem go away?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

"The Celtic Warrior" wrote in message

Very unlikely.

I run adaware and spybot weekly. Inspect the running programs
monthly. I have my system locked down very well. The only thing that
qualifies is the MSN Tool Bar. Shutting it down helps immensely but
it always reinstalls itself. Does that qualify as Malware?

Rikk.

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
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"The Celtic Warrior" wrote in
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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