> Try clearing your history, shutdown IE then start it up again.

Thanks, I tried that very early on but it made no difference

Whatever it is has wedged itself into the OS like a nasty little
tick. Possibly I can pick up what it is looking at the processes
in Task Manager (Applications shows just Explorer)

I've found a Zone Alarm log about a program called internet.exe,
which appears to be low-risk adware. Although the symptoms
found by Google aren't quite what I see they're close enough to
pay this file some attention

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And visiting a site to get info about internet.exe an XP-looking
pop-up telling me my PC may have Critical Errors sent my
browser off to some s/w-to-protect-your-PC sales pitch. Geez
you people, stay the *$&#  out of my computer !!!

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