Odd.. the first forum subject I headed to in here I posted something on a scam I uncovered just this week. And here you have a whole thread on it. I think I like this place :)

Anyway, all of this makes me think of the good old days when I didn't have to open all my mail on the Mac. Not to say that viruses can't attack a Mac- but very few of them do in relation to windows.
And I long for the good old days when I didn't have to set the pc's to run spy-killers, ad-smackers, trojan-smiters, etc etc ad nauseum once every few days.

I have no idea how anyone new to the net can protect themselves these days. Even large companies such as AOL impregnate thier software with spyware- and do not inform you on download. How are newbies to know- without informative forums such as this one? There is hardly anything worse than people who lie, scam and steal from pure greed. I am realy getting disgusted with the amount of it online.

Thanks for starting this thread- the posted links are good ones, I have been to many of them.