Dear Listers, First: thank you, Heather, for all the time/energy/research you put into foiling these .........? What word can we use that would not reduce us to their level? Second: I have an old Mac. This is what I use for public sorts of things like genealogy lists. My viruses have been....very few (nil, actually). Third: My credit union makes my accounts very UNFRIENDLY to Macs, so I bought a PC on e-Bay for a song. It, too, is a "used" model, though it is MUCH faster than my Mac and it actually cost next to nothing. (I share the monitor with both. I flip the switch: left (PC) for banking , right (Mac) for everything else, including this site. Genealogically speaking, most of my ancestors whose "cause of death" I have been able to access seem to have exited from cardiac arrest. I am trying, via the Mac, to alter my genetic pre-disposition. Good wishes, Joan