I'd bet good money you've become one of the latest casulties in the war against spyware. As the name implies, it's software that spies on your activities and reports them back to someone covertly. Most of the time, this software makes Microsoft's work seem stable as a rock.
Download a copy of Ad-Aware, Spybot and whatever other spyware removal tools you can find. Update their definition files and run each one at least twice. You'll probably find a few hundred items.
Once that's done, you might want to avoid certain programs that are prone to letting this stuff onto your system. Programs such as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Kazaa (and virtually every other P2P program), and Windows Media Player 8 & 9 (probably older versions as well). Those are the big ones, there are plenty of smaller ones out there, but that's what Ad-Aware and friends are for.
You can substitute in Mozilla or Firebird & Thunderbird ( http://www.mozilla.org ) for IE and OE, Kazaa should be counted as a lost cause, and WMP can be replaced with MediaPlayer Classic ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=212449 ). All of which are free, just as functional -- if not more so -- and contain absolutely no spyware nor do they really make it as easy to be infected with such.
I have been recieving these messages when I am working oline in Internet Explorer, or in any folder With Internet Explorer it states "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvevience, send error report,then select close for the error window and everything shuts down and i have to start internet explorer again and login to my work place after loosing all my
work.

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