09-03-2006, 10:00 AM
Quote:ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt.
It just completely crashed, said Lambert, 38, a community worker who lives in Helston, Cornwall. The anti-virus software was saying the computer was infected, but it just couldnt fight it. The computer got slower and slower and then it just stopped.
A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lamberts personal details appeared on a Russian website.
Her home phone number, her address, her credit card number and her e-mail address with Tesco were all listed on a forum where criminals and computer hackers trade stolen identities...
full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...45,00.html