Illegal Operations

From: squirt_lel \(removethis\) _at_hotmail.com (_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:33:22 -0800

Lately I have been having serious trouble with my Internet
Explorer. If I try to use it, I automatically get a window
that tells me that it has done an illegal operation. So I
hit the close button so that Internet Explorer can shut
down. But then I get a second window that tells me again
about some error that has occured with Microsoft Internet
Explorer and if I still have trouble, I should restart my
computer. Even when I try to open some folders on my
desktop, such as My Computer and the Recycle Bin, I just
get the illegal operations warning for Explorer. What's
going on exactly? I haven't downloaded anything new
(except for IE 6.0 today) and I haven't opened any
attachments from e-mails. Is there some virus that I don't
know about? Please help, this is very frustrating!