Scam?
I am writing two things about my computer from the viewpoint of someone who understands nothing.

1. I made a big fuss here about my blog being placed on a hard core nrop site and getting masses of searches from it. I also tracked one regular back to his office (in Sw1tzerl@nd) and sent an e-mail to the manager of that office complaining (but not naming). This e-mail came from my other account and is not connected to this blog. Very soon after that all searches from the porn site ceased. But on my s1temeter it said Referral bl0cked a few times although I had not blocked anything.

So - apart from that e-mail I have done nothing but the nuisance is gone after I wrote about it here. What does that mean?

2. MORE INTERESTING. I have an adware virus in this computer but I have got rid of the worst bits of it, amateurishly, and am living with the rest of it for now. BUT ... the other day I was buying a book on Am@zon and the checkout kept flicking off. I pressed it quickly several times and as it came up I saw, for a second, that there was someone else's e-mail address in the box. Then it was gone - but I had noted it. I typed it into Search as the person's name was very unusual. AND ... it came up under a computer repair company in Cal1fornia. Exactly the sort of place which might contain a person who would hack into other people's computers ... I thought.

Or is this just a coincidence? Is it normal for another e-mail address to appear in your account or have I uncovered a world-wide scam?
- posted by Iris @ 6/24/2004 09:58:00 AM comment