Hi, This is an old problem for me here. I am running IE6. No toolbars, spyware etc. What happens is that if the popup for private mail is accepted, once I view the mail and respond. All open browser windows will freeze and I have to end task to get rid of IE. I tried working around it by dismissing the popup and then using the private mail link in the top right corner. That approach lets me continue for a while and then when I leave digitalpoint, IE again freezes. This has also happened on other sites. The commonality is that they are often blogs. It goes like this: view a blog, lockup IE, end task. I would suspect a runaway javascript function. plumsauce