Hi John,

Yeah, I've been somewhat slack about my on-line security of late--I've been looking at the Ad-Aware thing too, but haven't downloaded it. Normally I don't do a lot of websurfing, so the cookie issue isn't that big of a deal for me. But I've been doing on-line research at home lately, so I guess the time has come to get back to it.

I try and keep abreast of the latest security stuff on about a twice yearly basis or so. I'll research everything, look at what's new and what seems reasonable for my uses. I'm good at keeping up with the virus alert stuff (we had a worm virus last fall), but I am more lax about the tracking stuff.

Stories like the one above give me just one more good reason to research in the library instead of on-line at home! Of course, I also don't believe that Comcast is the only corporation tracking us.

Joan from Wigan, if you think this stuff is just conspiracy theory paranoia, I have some Enron stock I'll sell you for cheap.