Hi all. Hope you can help me with this recent problem my system has developed. (System is WinXP Pro, IE 6, with SP-2.) When I connect to _directly_ to IE via my desktop, I get my homepage fine, but after about 3 seconds, the 'puter shuts down and restarts. However, if I connect "indirectly" to the Internet thru one of my several desktop specific-site shortcuts, I don't have any shut down problems. I am not having any problems with OE--email is working fine. The other "anomoly" is that the 'puter also exhibits the same sudden shutdown behavior when I try to run my AVG antivirus program--program runs for about 15 seconds, then the 'puter suddenly shuts down and reboots. (This is the only virus program I have installed.) I can successfully run my Spybot, Ad-Aware, and MS Antispyware programs for spyware/malware, and nothing is detected. I have the "free" version Zone Alarm firewall installed, with the XP firewall turned off. I checked my Event record to see if I could find out what "Event" might be causing this problem, and I see that I am getting various event IDs at different shutdowns, but they all reference that the "database engine stopped". Some of the specific event ID's are 100, 101, 102, 103, 300, 301, & 302. I can post a "Hijack This" log if requested, but I don't see anything on there myself that might be causing this problem. Any help in diagnosing and fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated!! I am on line right now, and can respond back immediately, unless the system totally shuts down on me! Thanks. (PS: Have cable internet connection.)