IE6 With XP Home SP1 Hangs On Yahoo Home

IE6 works fine except for the Yahoo home page. This problem started several days ago, and haven't knowingly downloaded or installed anything new.

Whenever I go to Yahoo Home, the CPU usage shoots up to 100%, stalling the system. If I quit IE6, the CPU usage returns to normal. I can't find any other web site that causes the usage to shoot up, only Yahoo Home, other Yahoo pages are OK. Several days before this started I noticed that the Yahoo Banner at the top of the home page was missing. Now when I go there, the banner shows the whole page loads but the CPU usage is 100%

Scanned system with Norton anti virus, SkyBot and Ad-Aware, nothing showed up.

Any Ideas?

 

While I'm not so sure this behavior shouldn't be expected (based on what is being loaded when you go your prefered Homepage/startpage. Particularly if it involves shockwaveflash, preferences such as when a customized/personalized page is used or based on what is not being loaded via popup blockers), you can empty the TIF.....

If this is your homepage and your having problems loading it empty your temporary internet files, if that doesn't do it dump the cookies, keeping in mind that you may have to reset any passwords or preferences made to sites that you have allowed to be stored on your drive by these cookies.

You can do this in any number of ways but why not keep it simple and use IE's toolbar>Tools>ie options>general tab, delete files....delete history....delete cookies (one, two or all three, the choice is yours).