[fanfan]

I don’t understand it but when it finally got corrected I had a new little internet icon in my taskbar and the old one was there but showed ‘not connected’.

That is weird.

Why would that happen?

[potlatch]

Hi fanfan. I still don't know. I have Linksys wireless so I have a router and a modem. I couldn't get to the internet for almost 4 1/2 days a month ago, my ‘connection’ light kept blinking instead of staying on steady.

I thought it was my computer but finally called Suddenlink Cable company twice, the second time they said they were ‘working on it, that the satellite had moved’!

Sounded strange to me but when they got it fixed I suddenly had a new internet icon and I had to reset my wireless connection as it didn't have the proper url anymore.

As a sidenote, I've been fighting a ‘re-director virus’ ever since then and even wonder if they somehow let something get through, left a port open or something when the trouble was happening. I was using Windows Firewall at that time.

I saw the headline on Drudge and thought it just might apply to what happened to me.