DAMN IT! I didn't download anything - just clicked the link in the e-mail. (Didn't really pay much attention to the text of the link.) I knew something was weird when all I saw was some kind of song lyrics, but I got really suspicious when I noticed a lot of hard drive activity...
I turned off WiFi (I was on my notebook) just in case and checked Task Manager to see what was using CPU cycles... something called "vsmon.exe". Searcghed my hard drive for vsmon.exe and nothing was found. Began to panic. Checked (Codestuff) Starter - nothing had been added to any startup areas, so I rebooted. When it came back up, I checked taskmgr again. vsmon.exe was listed and actively using CPU. Searched again and found vsmon.exe in the ZoneAlarm directory. (It's the anti-virus program - I have ZA Suite.)
Anyway, so I turned WiFi back on, but now I have no internet/network access! I can't even connect (by IP address) to the WAP! (Even though it shows that I'm connected to it ansd signal strength is excellent!) Also, when I try to bring up a website, it now says, "Connecting to..." and gives an IP address - whereas before it always said "Connecting to
www.google.com". I checked all my settings (I use static IPs on all machines on my home network) and everything is correct - DNS servers, everything.
I shut my notebook down for now. Will have to look into this later. Would appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
This SUCKS.