A specific URL loading very slowly

[IO540]

I have a website which consists of about 100 lines of text and a little picture. I created it myself.

On a specific PC only, and only with IE7 (this is XP) the base page of this site takes about 5 mins to load.

Sub-pages load instantly. Same with Opera on the same PC. Really weird!

Any ideas? It has only just started doing it so it could be something in the IE config, but other sites seem to run fine. Does IE have some kind of per-site blocking? However, it does display it eventually.

[IO540]

I have done View Source and found that the string

src="http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js"

is being added into the HTML.

A google reveals very little, and if I do a search using another search engine e.g. www.av.com (http://www.av.com) I get a lot more hits...

Update: the answer turned out to be quite complex:

I have been using a Vodafone 3G adaptor, which obviously uses a Voda internet gateway. This gateway compresses the data; it inserts various code into the data to compress the data, and there is a little java program on the PC which uncompresses it. A search on Bytemobile reveals more...

Anyway, somehow a copy of the offending web page ended up in my browser cache, complete with the Voda java code, but since I was not running the Voda 3G software anymore, the inserted code was not getting stripped out, and was confusing IE7.

Solution: purge the browser cache.

10/10 for bizzare.