Life Disconnected

Like gamecoder said in a previous post, we have not had internet access for awhile.  It was freeing, and constricting at the same time.  What a paradox.

I do everything on the internet, from grocery and pharmaceutical shopping, finding restaurant discount coupons, pet products, computer products, bank locations, movie times, etc. 

I went into deep depression without my internet drug. 

We are staying in an RV campground.  People in them do tend to be friendly and nosy, so I guess I got to be connected with people again.  But after awhile, those people simply bug ya.  They bring "borrow cup of sugar" to a new level of neighborly contact.  I was so connected that I wanted to be disconnected from them and connected onto the internet again... where the ahem sane and mature people are :-_

I got my fix. I paid $35/month for WiFi with Very Low or Low signal strength, that simply boots me every once in awhile.

I have found new things to do on the internet, with my new access.  There is life again, and like gamecoder said, viruses and trojans again.  I like Ad-Aware, NoAdware, Spyware Doctor, Pest Patrol, HijackThis (don't delete everything it says :-) , XoftSpy, CCleaner, SpyCatcher, AVG, etc.  Norton is no longer in that list.  You need several of them, because they each find different things.  Am I missing any really good ones?  I'm thinking of writing (programming) a wrapper for them that runs each of them in series -- not just scheduled jobs because those can overlap and drive the hard drive mad.