By the way, folks, I have noticed a huge increase in the number of fraudulent e-mails with malicious code attached. Over the past couple of weeks I am getting one or two a day in my ISP’s virus filter, whereas before it might have been one every few months. I have been tracing these and many of them come from .ru URLs. I hope this means that the sources of funds for the crooks are drying up and they are getting more desperate, but they are certainly getting much more bold. And it would appear the servers in St. Petersburg, Russia that were the source of so many such attempts are back at it again (reference a previous Belmont Club post on the subject).

But in any case Beware!