My son, who is a bit of a conspiracy nut, swears this happened to him. When he first hooked up to the internet in his new apartment, he started functioning normally but after a couple of weeks, his Skype account wouldn't work. He called the internet provider, which had an account for cable and internet in the building he moved into and the technician he got read off every piece of software he had installed on his PC. Is this possible? He swears they froze his Skype account and even though he no longer lives in that building, nor uses their company, he is still locked put of his Skype account.

I guess what I am asking is can internet providers scan your PC and do they do this routinely?