Has It Been 30 Days Yet?

Far be it from me to diss my new ISP, but I just launched Internet Explorer to compare its rendering of this site to Firefox's, and Verizon, having integrated a toolbar into IE for DSL support, popped up a window telling me some scary story about some scary new worm. At the bottom, of course, was a link: "Solve my problems."

How can you not blindly click on a link like that?

So, I did. After an interminable period of staring at a splash screen that said "Please wait while we check your settings," the screen finally repainted to say:

You are currently not connected to the Internet. Let us help you get connected to the Internet.