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.
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.
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.