I got a call from ISP a couple of days ago. Its very hard to understand the guys (more American jobs outsourced), something about there was a problem with windows..something got in? He told me to limit my online time to 15 minutes until my friend came over with an extra phone as I have dial up and couldn't multitask and they would call back. I thought a virus got in or they were trying to sell me something.

Got another call from a different guy this AM who said my connection was slow because my warrenty on Windows had expired and I wasnt getting updates and of course said they could fix it if I purchased warrenty.

I looked at my Windows stuff and it said it had updated on 11/12/11 and I think Ive gotten other updates. There were a couple more available "Microsoft Update compatibility Pack" was one. Should I assume I don't have a virus and stay online long enough to update it?

My computer was funny for a couple of days but Norton did some stuff and it is the same as always now.

I got went ahead and used their 'Clean up' program as I had already ordered it when I was told here there is a free one and I don't know if I'm just a sucker they are trying to sell to. There was a bunch of stuff in my Norton today...
"Protecting your connection to newly detected network on People PC Online" (I know..its cheap), "Intrusion Prevention has been enabled", "You created firewall to manage how local Security Authority Process access your network resources", etc. I have no idea if it always does that, if ISP did it, or if I have a virus doing things?
Any comments appreciated,
Zygo