What in the world is View Manager? Is it as bad as I think it might be?

I keep running into trouble on both IE and Firefox where web pages load incompletely and graphics and/or photos never completely load. Then I can’t get the browser to respond to anything – whether it is a new address, refreshing the page, etc. The page just flickers briefly and then declares itself ‘done’.

I finally have to reboot my computer and when I do an error box pops up (once the computer is back on) claiming that “ViewMgr has encountered problems” and must shut down. This is a fairly new problem that’s just cropped up in the past week or so.

I decided, then, to update/upgrade my virus protection by logging on to AVG and, though I can currently open any other site/page, AVG.com keeps causing a page load error. Is this all due to ViewManager? Is there a specific component to trojans or viruses that will disallow anti-virus sites from loading?

Any help or insight will be welcome. Thanks in advance.