I vote for malware, else why not put a title on the program? Rot47: <;F56]52D9:6==@?2GJ]>:=> -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tribble Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:10 To: bprogramming Subject: links retrospective I know I beat this to death yesterday, but my laptop is at it again, blocking links. However, today the problem corrected itself when I killed an untitled program that popped up and grabbed IE when I tried to open a link in an email. Once that was done the links all worked, and quickly. Not only that, but one of the support apps for my hp printer also appeared to start functioning. I don't know if this is Norton, or malware, or windows, but for some reason, IE and an hp utility app are held in a strangle hold by this elusive program. The only reason I'm mentioning this is to see if anyone else has experienced this and can share some knowledge. Anyway, thanks and I'll let this die off if no one has anything to add. --le __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind