Yo Rick:
When I copy,paste, and go to these Urls (Fortunate Son, What do you make of this, and Not Partisan) my computer puts up a warning sign " that this file may be harmful to my computer", so I do not open those files. They probably only carry spyware or adware virus and I do have McCaffe anti-virus, Spybot, and Zone Alarm but I still will not download those files.
Are you sure when your computer went down it was caused by your DSL and not some website you downloaded from?
JonR