Not conclusive but if these emails are affecting your browser I would suspect malware. Malware or a virus are in my opinion the same. I have had this happen to me once a couple of months ago. I will do some tracking on this and have some results tommorow for ya. In the meantime I would run some good spyware programs. Mine are all beefed out and stretched out, but I would suggest the folowing:
Ad-aware Se personal
Xoftspy
Spybot search and destroy
Hi-jack this 1.8
You can never have too many spyware programs, the more the better. Will get back to you on who this may be. greek39
Congrats Captain for getting the situation resolved!