At the moment I am in the process of absorbing information so that's the reason why my posting are infrequent. I'm struggling to juggle between different books on various subjects ranging from Java to Entomology with Malaysia research in between.

This weekend was marked by two things; a puncture and a quest to free a friend's computer from spyware. My first attempt was installing Adware 6.0, which managed to find and fix hundreds of nasties but it was only after the fifth scan that Adware was satisfied that the laptop was ok. Unfortunately it was wrong. A browser hijacking program was resetting Internet Explorer startup page each time IE was started and each time it closed. I tried to scour through processes running in memory and disabling some IE components but it did not work. I really would like how they do these tricks. After trying a multitude of things and installing Spybot S&D my brother decided to install the latest version of Adware. It was only than that the malware was found corrected and restored peace.