Internet Explorer 8 freezes when attempting to browse

I had a weird problem with my Internet Explorer that took me a while to track.  Occasionally when I would open other tabs and try to browse to bing.com,  google.com or any other web site it would not respond to the request.  It would freeze and behave like there were not connections available! Odd.

Anyway, I found a problem that solves it for me.  AVG Web Shield was causing my issue.  I have no evidence to support my claim other than when I restarted my computer and started using Internet Explorer 8 the problem went away.  Could be coincidence :)

Steps to disable Web Shield

• Double click the AVG icon in the notification area of your taskbar
• Double click Web Shield icon circled below
• Uncheck Enable Web Shield (require browser restart)