Spoke too soon. IE was running perfect yesterday, I come back to work and the same problem. I click on the icon, hour glass shows up but then it disapperars. For some reason I believe that my computer might still be infected and it is blocking my internet access. Sometimes it shows a slow connection warning, no connection, connection unsecure, or it just cannot detect a network. I friend of mine recommended reinstalling the operating system CD but I am not sure that that will solve the issue.