Impending Total IE Crash: How Do You Recover From This

I was working on a blog post the other day about whether or not the Google Toolbar was a trojan horse for online advertising targeting. I was referencing a post on TechCrunch that talked about it and in their post they had a video of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer talking about the issue.

The video was labeled as being from the Washington Post. When I tried to paste the embed code into my post in Windows Live Writer, Internet Explorer tried to keep opening new IE windows one right after another.

I have no idea what was happening or why, but my question is how do you recover from an impending crash that you know is about to happen? I tried to open Task Manager and start ending the tasks manually but they were starting new ones faster than I could kill the applications. It was the same case for trying to kill the processes as well. I knew it was coming. How do you stop it? I couldn’t even get to my other open programs to try and save items before it happened.

Anyone with an idea of what occurred let me know so I can try and avoid it in the future. Was it a problem with IE? Was it a problem with Windows Live Writer? Was it a problem with the embedded code itself trying to do something?

If you don’t know the answers to that but know how to escape from an impending crash quickly please let me know.