Chris wrote... I don't use Winblows so I don't care! Maybe someday people will wake up
and ditch that POS OS.
Uh, Chris. You must be using Linux or MAC OS. Do NOT feel superior or compalcent. The real bad guys out there (not the script kiddies or wannabe's) are targetting your operating system. It's just that the flood for WIN/OS is so high, you don't see the sharks floating around. You have been lucky so far.
Adequate firewall and updates kept current Adequate anti-virus and updates kept current Safe and secure practices (ie, not opening e-mail using the preview mode) E-mail from known sources that now use their website's "My Page" and internal messaging, like eBay
I get two to three a day. Open un "Properties", take a peek at the source, cut-and-save message source, foward original message to snipped-for-privacy@ebay.com or snipped-for-privacy@paypal.com, past the source of the original message, send new message, delete old.
My wish right now is a spoof button or toolbar entry that does all of these steps without my intervening.