Computer and phone screw-ups. Unable to post .

Hey everyone,

I've had connection problems when I downloaded a AVG Free update on Thur, June 16, 2011.  From then until Sunday, July 3, my PC computer became slower and slower until it froze up upon being booted up on Tues, July 28.  From then until that Sunday July 3, I couldn't use my computer online or off until it did a CHKDSK thing on that July 3 Sunday morning and now my PC is working great (for now)! 

Fortunately, I saw what was happening, and starting saving all the files I wanted to save to my external hard drive.  So now I"m doing backups between daily or up to three days max.

Now the problem is with the phone (I got dial-up for Internet and AT & T for my phone).  The phone cord is outside on the ground instead of buried because all the rain we had in March & April (I live in central Arkansas) ruined the phone lines back in approx. Jan 2011.  So the phone techs left the phone wire above the ground "temporarily" (6 months is temporarily?!).  Now apparently, the lawn service (I live in a condo) got the phone cord caught in their lawn mower and it's now a twisted and mangled mess!

So I'm writing this in a community college PC lab.  I should have phone service back up by this Friday night of July 8 (ugh! a long time!).