I'd say look more at the guys character In some of the articles that I read, the guy was quoted as blatantly spamming peole. He believed that e-mail was invented as a way to spam people (or something to that effect). In other words, he didn't care one bit for how his spam affected people. One of the sadder issues is that many ISP's block .ru addresses because so much spam is sent from there. This means that the average Russian user can't send e-mail without it being blocked as "spam". Y'know...erm...got hijacked and was redirected to a site where I got that spyware on my system Um, stop using Internet Explorer and you won't get hijacked. :) Use a Mac or Linux (which don't have all of the Windows' security holes) and you won't get hijacked either. :) --John

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