Discuss amongst yourselves, I’ll give you a topic..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Here are some links to recent news stories:

SpyWare steps out of the shadows.

How to steal a domain in easy stages.

Weblog Spam

Porn sites hiding behind blogs.

New virus scams paypal users

Blogrolling hacked

Who needs virus’s when cPanel can stuff your site up for you instead?

All of this stuff has been going on within the last week. Now given all of this, when do we reach a point where maintaining a personal site, such as this one, and a personal domain and email address just become more work than it’s worth?

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