There's a bad spam / malware (bad software) attack going on lately on the internet - if you ever get an email from what appears to be a company or organization that encourages you to download software, do not do it.

Follow this link to F-Secure.com (these are the people who write Shaw Secure for Canadian subscribers of Shaw).

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001625.html

"The type of spam runs we saw late last year (Obama and BofA) are starting to pick up again in volume. We've seen Classmates being used as a theme and two days ago it was fake Facebook messages. Today it's back to fake Bank of America certificates."

Note the level of trickery the bad guys are going to - that graphic image looks quite convincing. Imagine your less technical friends and relatives - how would they treat the message? Help them learn what to do.

When in doubt, chuck it out.

From the be nice while he visits, stab him in the back when he leaves department:

Harper attacks Liberals, Obama in private speech to party (March 13 2009 - Jennifer Ditchburn, CP via The Star):

[Stephen Harper] twice pointed disdainfully to tax hikes U.S. President Barack Obama introduced for the highest tax brackets.

Mike Brock, a Conservative blogger who attended the conference, called the speech bewildering.

"The treatment to classical liberals and libertarians – of which I consider myself – was nothing short of stunning," he wrote. "The condescension was literally dripping from his mouth. Was this his response to the disillusionment that libertarians across the country have had to his government and its policies of late?

"If it was, it did not build any bridges. Rather, it burnt them right down."

"We have tried going out and selling things we don't believe in – how's that working?" Tom Long, former Canadian Alliance leadership candidate