Well just to answer the questions:

1. I download freestuffs regularly I think my last download was yesterday or so, although I rarely unpack those downloads right away and in fact have quite a number of unpacked files sitting about at any given time.

2. I have not recieved any of the new Greeting Card type spam.  In fact my e-mail continues to remain quiet on the spam front and I am still recieving notifications of comments/image uploads, favorites, etc. daily.

3. I recieved the Rendo newsletter last night.  Normally I delete it without opening it as it's esentially the front page which I see all the time, but I did open this one for the sake of the theory it might be connected to the spam.  I haven't recieved any spam as a result so far.

Hope all that helps a bit.

Finally while it's pure speculation on my part I wouldn't expect much in the way of offical progress reports from the Rendo Staff until their investigation and if neccesary security fixes have been completed, which may be some time yet in coming (I certianly don't know that is just a guess).

I'm certian we can all appreciate the need not to overtly state what steps are being taken, what checks they are running, when and where they are running them, what they have and or have not discovered, etc. pubicly until after everything they can do on their end has been done.  After all if there is a problem internally with Rendo's security (and it may just as possibly be external as several have pointed out), certianly they wouldn't want to tip off anyone involved who might be glancing at threads such as this as to what they are doing to stop them.

Well just a small thought or two from ignorant little me ^^