Our computer is sick!

You may have noticed that we haven't updated our blog site for the past 2 weeks. Why you may ask?...partly because there really hasn't been anything that interesting going on...except for watching the primaries...but also more importantly, we have been ousted from accessing the internet! We pay our bills...so we called Time Warner and asked "what gives?".

As it turns out, someone or something hacked through our WEP-secure (in theory) wireless router, and used our computer to redirect traffic to an identity theft site! Time Warner said that their system detected the virus/spyware and thus prophylactically removed our ability to connect through their network, in an effort to reduce the likelihood of other computers on the network from being infected.

So now we're in the predicament of trying to find a computer service that will somehow clean the virus off our system without having to reformat our system. This whole debacle comes at an untimely juncture as we're looking to book arrangements for our trip next week to Virginia to check out the area and speak with some dentists and look at practices.

So unless a miracle occurs, don't expect any posts in the near-term from us until we can get our computer back in better shape. Of course the other alternative (which Chris strongly advocates) is to just get a new computer (ours is already 5 years ancient). We'll see which option prevails. Until then, we hope that your computing experience will be safer than ours.