We've warned you before about websites that misrepresent themselves as Lavasoft affiliates and sell copies of our software that are not legitimate or supported by our company. It’s come to our attention that a site we issued a past word of warning on, oemlib.com, is operating under a number of other domains, all with a similar appearance, including:

Oemdatabase.net
Oemcheapsoftware.com
Fullversiondownloads.net
Oem-apps.com
Oem-x.com

This week’s proof of the fast-acting, opportunistic nature of today’s spammers and cyber scammers:

While the phrase “swine flu” has reportedly not been seen in spammed messages prior to the start of this week, an estimated 5 percent of junk mail clogging inboxes around the world now refers to it, according to industry stats cited in a Guardian.co.uk article.

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) have become a massive industry over the last decade. World of Warcraft alone has approximately 10 million active users. (1) That's more than Sweden’s total population! A lot of users and money involved means that malware writers have a good opportunity to earn some "easy cash".

While traveling in Asia, I recently experienced extremely low security levels at an Internet café. I went in to check my e-mail and made a security check on the Windows OS. I opened Windows Task Manager and looked for suspicious applications running, thinking that probably thousands of users must have used this machine.

Yet another rogue anti-spyware application has been released. This time it's called WiniBlueSoft.