I'm not sure, but the headlines on one of the news channels was saying yesterday that there was a major virus attack, possibly from a Chinese hacker, was causing some problems. My wanders through the internet today have been painful for slowness which leads me to believe that there are some more of the big ISP's with more firewall levels. Of course, the Dow is down ~418 points as I type this. Perhaps more folks then usual are checking their investments - I know mine are about gone at this point