10/23/03


I've noticed that if I visit certain web sites I will get SPAM related to
their content. soon afterward This happens whenever I look at discount drug
sites, ie Canadian Pharmacies offering cheaper prescription drugs to US
customers, and sites selling supplements. I have never registered at any of
these sites or given one my email address. I use IE 6 with Active X set to
prompt. I'd pass this off as coincidence but it happens every time. Last
night I looked at one Canadian discounters site following a link in a story
on a local TV channel's website. This morning I received four ads for
discount Canadian drugs. My email address is beday@greedybroadbandisp.com,
these came addressed to bedavis.

I have the preview window disabled in Outlook and blocked sender for each
message, deleting them all unopened. What's going on? BHO's being installed
by the numerous popups I received and closed reading my email address from
the registry of another configuration file? I ran Adaware as I was closing
down last night. It found about a dozen cookies with perhaps four data
miners. I use Adaware and Spybot S & D regularly. My firewall is Sygate Pro
5.1.


Not As Anonymous As I Think.


TIA