A: Something weird is going on, but it seems to be Win XP related. My hard drive suddenly spins up when I access EBay the past few days and freezes up. I run the Lavasoft and my IS2004 antivirus ( http://housecall.trendmicro.com for a free checkup ), plus dump the cookies before I enter any passwords (for safety's sake) There was a bug going around at Christmas time that was lowering the SSL rating of people with Explorer (my wife opened a Christmas card from a friend and infected ours) and they were stealing passwords and credit card numbers. (Someone tried to run stuff on my old card numbers, but they are marked to report any such actions as attempted fraud) I think I still have the SANS report on that one. From: Jerry Casper <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: EBAY....slow as molasses in January??? To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- Joe <jgray_55@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with ebay? No matter > WHAT i try to look at..etc..it almost freezes up? > VERY slow? Been that way a couple of weeks?? Thanks, > Joe > Might just be heavy Internet traffic in your area, tying up cyber-lanes of communications. Could be you have too many cookies ( on your computer ) and need to download Lavasoft's Ad-aware 6.0 to clear out all the spyware. :) Or, could just be your PC is croaking, if your cooling fan isn't working or is very dirty. Could be lots of things...I've had no problem searching Ebay this week in VA, regardless of any local area problems you have experienced. Jerry