In a monumental lapse of judgement, I let my wife use my computer one day, and I was immediately attacked by several viruses which crippled my computer. After hours and hours of smashing my head into the Windows wall of pain, and finally re-installing Windows, I finally was able to connect to the internet, but the only website that I could connect to was the Taldren Forums. Why? I noticed that the Taldren forums use an IP address instead of a domain name resolved by DNS. That led me to check my internet connection DNS settings, and sure enough, some malicious app had re-routed all my internet traffic through some strange foreign webserver, preventing any DNS resolved web URL's from resolving on my comp. So, with that info I was easily able to remedy the problem. Thank god for the Taldren forums, it has saved me from much hassle and frustration!