Flashing icon from IE

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A few times a day when I come to my computer (beige G3, OS 9.2.2) there's an icon flashing in the Finder position (far right) of the Menu Bar. The icon looks like some sort of internet-related one, with a small greenish circle and a telegraph-pole-looking shape. When I pop down the Finder menu, there's a black diamond by Internet Explorer. When I switch to IE, the icon stops flashing.
I've looked through my extensions and control panels and not seen an icon like the one that flashes. My best guess is that IE is trying to do something on its own and is not finding some resource to do it with. I don't like the idea of IE doing things autonomously-- could something have infected it? I empty the IE cache and cookies regularly.
beige G3-300/ iBook 500 Mac OS 9.2.x

Uri W...
I believe that may be normal depending on whatever may be loaded into IE. For example, Google News will refresh their page after so many minutes. That inrush can signal Finder alerting you to that fact there is some new activity in progress. In other words its a "Finder Alert" (or Attention) that is more controled as some activity may even bring up an alert box if ignored. If Speaking Alert is enabled you may even start hearing things.
Things like this is handled somewhat different in Mac OS 10, as your icon on the Dock may start bouncing.
...Ron

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