Quote - I strongly urge you to cancel that Paypal account since it's already been compromised once, and if you absolutely must continue to deal with Paypay, then do it through an entirely new account.

It should be ok now. It's a really, really, really long and complicated password consisting of capitals, small letters and numbers all mixed up.  Let me put it this way. I had to write it down for myself at home because there is no way I would ever remember it!

I have scanned my system for virus and trojans and Dr. Web is currently running. Everything is clean.  I also have no adware on my system either. I ran Lavasoft. 

I'll have been roaming around that silkroad site. I'll look into the merchandise purchasing aspect of it. 

There was a hotmail email address shown in the PayPal notification of payment.  So it does sound like it was a private person who was selling some game stuff and might have gotten ripped off or something.  I was scared to contact that person out of fear that it was a phishing expedition. I'm still not sure if I should or not.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi