high speed internet connection.  I have yet to see one that offered hourly rate.  The standard is $9.95/day in LV, SoFlorida and LA.

Re:Beware of viruses from TER (as wonderful as it is)

It reminds me of the sircam virus that would send out files from your own computer to everyone on your e-mail address lists- many of my research papers (for school) and random photos and other documents were sent to people on my lists- from all of my e-mails- and the subject line was: "for your perusal," or "for your review." Since the recipients recognized my address, they would open the attachment- see my document- and thereby catch the virus. I would get many puzzled responses asking why I wanted them to review a recipe for hummus or a photo of myself! But I did get some very helpful reviews of my school research. Thank God this was before I became a provider-can you imagine the mayhem?
XOXO Holly

Nod, one of the things the virus does is use an entry in an infected person's address book to send emails that look like they are coming from one place when they are coming from another.  My company was completely protected, but we still receive about 30 automated responses saying viruses had been sent from our mail servers.  Pretty tricky.  Glad to hear you're back online

Re: Security info website

Did anyone not get spammed by any of the SoBig virus variations?  I did and then I started getting better informed on internet security... I like this site

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

Just for grins I downloaded spyware (link for this and many others here) and ran it and it found 80 instances of spyware o my harddrive!!!  Most of them were tracking my movement on the web and sending the data back to a database somewhere.  Think I am going to get serious about personal privacy now!  Check it out!