In many many years I have never had a problem with IE becoming unresponsive. I been using IE 7.0 since it's release and never had a problem up until about 2 weeks ago. It has froze up at least 15 times in 2 months. Any ideas what could be going on here? It's NOT a virus or any other malware. It seemed to start when I installed the critical IE security update.
That happened to me as well. It got to the point where my banks wouldn't even let me log onto their site using IE. I switched to Firefox and haven't had anymore problems.