Mysterious freebies

It's not often you find a game you really like and to find a free downloadable copy on the web only to realize there's a virus attached to it.

I'm not going to name any names, I'm sure he's tired of the guilt tripping already. But on top of a series of problems I'm having with my computer, I finally got it back up with a new copy of Windows XP Home and all found 80 percent of all my old bookmarks again when I check my email and found porn offers galore coming from my friend. Which is not his normal character.

So I installed my chat programs and monitored them until he appeared to let him know I don't appreciate porn ads and how I found them to be distasteful as well as disgusting. He told me it wasn't him and learned that wasn't all that went wrong on his end of the continent.

Apparently there was an offer for a free downloadable game ... okay. I've done this myself on occassion from trusted websites. But when he went to install it. Everything went crazy on his end sending infected spam messages to everyone on his internet mailing list.

This is scary having it happened to me awhile back. Scary stuff. Now I scan all my emails before I open them for safety measures.