The eBay Creepies are out again.

For any of you who use eBay, be careful. There’re a new blizzard of bogus eBay and PayPal announcements trying to scam you into giving them your credit info. Just remember, eBay and payPal don’t do that stuff.

Damn, but I wish there was some way to send those [fill in your own expletive here] some sort of hard-drive bomb in return mail.

:smiling_imp: What ever you do to them, add the spammers and the virus writers. :devil:

Those things are amazing. I got a paypal one. I didn’t fall for it, but I couldn’t certainly see how lots of people would.

Dale

I always forward to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com as apropriate.

Hopefully if they get enough they’ll start to pursue the perps more vigorously!

My computer was recently infected with some spy or adware called GAIN and it took two hours for Spy Sweeper to get it off. I haven’t downloaded anything off the net in at least a year and I still got it. Let’s be careful out there.

The most common place to get this one is with Precision Time by Gator Software. Try to avoid downloading anything from Gator.

To keep the spyware, etc., off my comps, I use Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/), and the unfortunately named “Spybot-Search and Destroy”(http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html). Spybot has the nice feature of being able to act prophylactically, preventing spyware from being installed, as well as being able to scan for existing nasties.