I needed a new modum from verizon (DSL) for my dell 4600. The old one had gone bad as verified by a verizon tech. Once installed everything was fine. Then after 1 week , i had problems in getting internet explorer to come online. It takes 12 minutes for this to happen. after i log in to verizon yahoo, then i get a message form mcaffee that my firewall is off and my real time virus scan is off. I turn them on and proceed to call verizon tech support. They check the download/upload speeds using speedtest.net. Everything is fine. They tell me the browser is too slow. I upgrade to internet explorer 8 (windows xp) and things appear to be faster when online. Then i shut down the computer and tried to get online again. It takes another 12 minutes ans after loggin in my security warning again. What is going on? What do i have to do stepwise to get back to a quickstartup and shutdown? Shutdown takes about 7 minutes before everything is off. I did run the mcaffee virus scan and other than 13 cookies being deleted, everything else was fine. Please help!....paul k (email : pk454@verizon.net)