Deri James wrote:

> Only guessing, but it is likely to be Google are suffering a "Denial of
> Service" attack from someone on the same ISP as you. A common defence against
> a DoS attack is to block all access from the subnet the attack is coming from
> (which in this case includes you). It is highly unlikely the attack is coming
> from your machine, it will be Windoze machines which have been converted to
> attack drones by viruses operating on the same subnet.

Ah, that makes sense, at any rate, Google seems to be working for me
now.  Was getting a little paranoid as it's *never* done this to me
before, and then for it to happen a few weeks after upgrading my system,
well...

Thanks Deri,

Rayna