Google Search: “Microsoft URL Control”
Microsoft URL Control 6.00.8169: what is it? and what does it want?
Early reports suggest it’s either hunting out unsecured formmail.cgi scripts (circa 1995) or looking for unsecured mail relays.
The version number (if that’s what it is) makes me wonder if it’s part of IE 6, remembering the offline browser feature that was in IE4 and the associated consternation it created.