I went to talk to my neighbour next door and he's on a dedicated cable.
My other neighbours are a good 30-100 yards away. I'll bring this up with my new geek friend tomorrow. I called my son (another geek in his local phone book) and we fixed my email problem because he walked me through the problem. I'm on the other computer now and after running Avast and SpyBot see it's NOT infected. This made my day.

I can actually post here without saving it , expecting it to crash any minute while I answer Tom in a three paragraph rage. Can you image the RELIEF I feel?? LOL

BTW, I now have all my old emails going back 10 years PLUS "text only" files I saved from the old MSNBC boards, waiting to drop them here like bombs every now and then....stay tuned........