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You Can't Keep A Bad Scheme Down

The spyware scourge is only getting worse. Worried about angry consumers and legal troubles such as those facing Direct Revenue, some spyware companies are changing their ways -- for example, by asking computer users more clearly whether they understand they will receive pop-up ads. But new and more nefarious online advertising outfits are cropping up, many of them based overseas, says C. David Moll, chief executive of Webroot Software Inc., a Boulder (Colo.) company that makes programs to fight spyware. "Trench warfare, that is spyware today," Moll says. .

Do your homework before going shopping for a car CONSUMER TIPS

If researching prices is one key to getting a good deal on a new car, knowing what you're up against is nearly as important. Car dealers will throw everything they can at you and hope something sticks. Your best defense is to enter the battle prepared.

No matter how girded you are, however, you're likely to meet resistance. Here's how to avoid any traps:

Test drive like you mean it. First, make sure you're testing the car you'll actually be buying — same size, same engine. Salespeople may try to distract you during the test drive by chatting or playing the radio, says Consumer Reports, which tests and rates new cars. Ask to take the car out alone or keep it overnight and don't avoid rough roads, highways or hills.

Know what fees you have to pay.

Attack Of The Real Estate Rip-Offs

Every boom has a dark side. The merger mania of the 1980s produced insider trading scandals. The '90s stock bubble was busted for biased investment research.

And so it is with real estate, the hottest market of the past eight years. The urge to cash in on rising home values has spawned a growing share of hucksters, schemers and rip-off artists.

Learn how to avoid ten of the biggest real estate rip-offs.

Video: Real Estate Rip-Offs

So far, it is tough to know exactly how widespread the problem is. Just as conflicts with stock analysts and bankers didn't come to light until after the Internet bubble popped in 2001 and investors started to get hurt, only now, as the market starts to turn, are complaints over shady real estate practices pouring in.

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