I was thinking about the recent spyware problems I had. As previously
posted, I was bragging about how I had used various computers for years
without virus or spyware protection and never had any problems.
I've had this particular laptop for over a year hooked to Adelphia for an
ISP and never had any problems.
Then suddenly, it got trashed with spyware stuff in a matter of a couple
of days.

It just dawned on me that the problems started almost to the day that we
got a notice that we may experience some network difficulties and/or brief
outages because the Adelphia network was being taken over by Comcast who
bought Adelphia a while back. They were doing something with existing
Adelphia customers to integrate it into Comcast.

I wonder if that had anything to do with the sudden onset of spyware
stuff. Maybe Adelphia's service was better protected?


Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a load
of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
malicious website. Been there.