URGENT WARNING FOR MSN MESSENGER USERS!

Do NOT use this site: http://msncheck.41m.com/

it is a scam!

There is no contact info (even their main site is non-existant), and they are asking for private information.

They claim to be a free service that can tell you who has deleted you from their MSN contact list.

Anyone gullible enough to enter their info, will only have a few random emails from their *current* contact list sent back to them, and their usernames changed to the url to (according to their site) "help promote their free service". Obviously, they are already using your info to make changes to your account!

Up until about a year and a half ago, Microsoft required you to have a hotmail account to sign up. It also urged users to associate that account as your "MSN .net Passport" account. MANY users did so. By giving your info on that site, you would allow these scammers full access to EVERYTHING Microsoft associates with the .Net services in your name!

Even if you don't have a .net Passport account, they would still gain your email, and a password associated with that email (and many users would use the same password for their MSN account that they use for the email associated with it, so again, these people have open access to your information!)

If you have someone on your contact list with that url in their username, I urge you to inform them to change their password IMMEDIATELY, and point them to this page!

I have already reported them to Microsoft, but we all know how "efficient" they can be.

Just be careful folks, and use common sense...

Back in the Saddle?

Well, sort of. Maybe. For now at least. The weather here has been HORRIBLE! We've had almost 3 WEEKS worth of 90+ degree days since my last entry. Hence my non-updating. But today was great, and it looks like it'll be that way for at least this week. I really hope we've seen the last 90+ day this year...

Feel free to keep writing and commenting though, I'll still reply!