[Triple Word Score]

I get this odd thing--my firewall will tell me that various news sites are requesting my Ebay password.

My local news site, newsok.com, is one of the worst, but major news sources other than that have done it too. It mystifies me. I admit I know next to nothing about what is actually going on or if the request for my Ebay password comes from them or not.

I also don't know if my computer could give them what they're asking for--I always enter my password manually, every time....

[Jakarta ex-pat]

There are and will be thousands of websites out there that will never 'exclude" FR.

To hell with those who do and good riddnace; who cares.

[sweetliberty]

It is creepy, isn't it? I presume that they don't get through, at least not the ones that my firewall is notifying me about and I don't really understand how it works either, but I find it very disturbing that anyone with the know-how can access anybody's conmputer at will for whatever purpose they may have, and I'll warrant that anybody resorting to such things has no good purpose in mind.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

You have spyware on your system.

Get Lavasoft's Ad-Aware 6 and Spybot 1.2. Both are freeware and make for a killer anti-spyware combo.

And make sure you are firewalled. Zone Labs makes a free verson of their Zone Alarm firewall that is preety good.