Hi all.

I want to warn you all of a particularly dangerous root kit virus which 
infected my computer.  Last Thursday night I was doing a search for articles 
about Harry Kallis and Mark Fidrych when I somehow encountered a very mean 
virus called WinPC Defender.  What this virus does is mimic whatever your 
virus protection is so that your computer will think it is protected when it 
is not while inhibiting your real virus protection.  The more you fool with 
it, the more imbedded it gets into your registry, and it sends Internet 
Explorer to bogus websites.  The authors of this virus or malware or 
whatever it is also try to make you think you are buying legitimate virus 
protection because they ask for your credit card number and they have the 
usual accepting of the license agreement and so on.  My tech tried 
everything he knew, but he had no choice but to reformat the hard drive and 
restore it from scratch.  There is another similar one called Tricker which 
does the same thing.  So beware of both of them and other root kit viruses 
like them.
Harvey