Just for grins and giggles, and maybe help Joe subsidize the show, I like to click on the ads, to maybe earn Joe a penny or two, and just to check out the ads. I saw a firefox one, and was pleased, clicked on it, and it was a free starbucks card, if I completed so many offers,
yada yada yada... similar to the freeipod deal, I'm trying (Warning:shameless plug on the previous link :P).
Then I click on the other link and it goes to a PC Rescue software site. Since I'd never heard of it, I decided to google reviews of it, and came up with this info.
This is the most recent review, at the above site.
"Very disapointed! February 16, 2005
Reviewed By: Arlene Lewis
Very poor service. I lost my PC Rescue program in a computer crash and have been trying to get help@healthycomputerclub.com to respond with an activation key so I can reinstall and use my PC Rescue program that I just recently purchased. Looks like I'm out $39.95 and I'm angry."
And just to rehash on a similar "feature" here on blogger/blogspot, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT, click on the next blog button, in the upper right hand corner. An "adventure" by one blogger here,
the lowlight of the post for me was, "Sure enough, Ad-aware (from lavasoft) indicated that my computer had been infected with the Search Miracle/Elite Bar virus.
I sent Blogger an e-mail to investigate. I will post their response. In the meantime, I will not be clicking on the "next blog" icon in the near future."
Bottom line: Caveat "Internet user" (Does anyone know what that is in Latin? lol)
UPDATE: browsing the MT-Law blog, I found this additional info, on the javascript exploit in the NavBar of blogger.
Point taken. However, I will continue to click. I just try to practice "safe hex". So far, been OK.
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