ok folks. please be really careful when you do internet transaction or ibanking on the web. because a friend of mine, just had his bank account 'hacked' into. apparently it was a spyware that was lodged deep in his computer and that spyware sends out information about his online banking, transaction, passwords to whoever (culprit not caught yet) and said culprit used his account to do some massive purchasing.

for those less informed, spywares are those exe files running in the background that automatically lodges itself into your system and starts sending information to the unscrupulous agents. to prevent this from happening, you can either (like what i do for the dell in my living room) set the security setting to high, and do not allow cookies to be accepted unless u approve it, and also go download ad-aware and spybot.

or you can just change to a mac which is spyware-less.