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Form hijacking
That's a concise description of form hijacking. To be clear, emails contain a very large header that specifies all sorts of things. Complimentary humorous reference.

For what it's worth, the other person who responded to your post and spoke about credit card info and https is incorrect. The reason this kit is considered similar to the Zeus model is that Zeus is designed to turn machines into an email spam-generating botnet. Other malware that hooks into a web browser could potentially intercept HTTPS communication, but that's not what they are doing according to TFA. That would require a different type of exploit.

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It seems not to be specifically for AppleBASIC, but is this possibly the one?

This part sounds promising:

Pages and pages of program listings in tiny, all-caps, dot matrix type, with brief introductory paragraphs. Plus, funny illustrations of strangely plausible robots. Don't underestimate the appeal of the robots.

A commenter on that entry also says this, lending plausibility:

I remember checking out of copy of that book from the libray and typing games into an Apple II, making minor adjustments so Applebasic would be happy.

Amazon.com has some used ones listed -- even a couple listed as "new", with a price-tag to match! ;)

If it's not this one, then I hope you find it eventually. I've had similar somewhat frustrating experiences trying to remember kids' TV shows and various books I read as a child, and it's always pleasantly nostalgic to finally pin something down.

Give KDE a try sometime (when 3.5 comes out?) if you have the means ... you might be pleasently surprised. Consider the time you spend configuring it to your liking as an investment in productivity. It might take ours if you are absolutely new, but that is time well spent (and a one time job only - once you find out what suits your needs best, you don't have to do it again). I read a review of KDE from an MacOS X user (or more a like a comparison) some time ago. It is a two year old review, and if you know the pace of development of KDE, you must know that it has improved tremendously in that time, but it is still an interesting read I guess. You'll find it here.

Note that he compares KDE 3.1.4 with OS X, and yes, there were things he liked, there were things he didn't, some of which has been addressed since then, and there were some things that (be very shocked!!!) he liked better in KDE.

Oh, well...

"... and I've yet to find anything that KDE can do that Aqua can't seem to"

Here is something that a Mac OS X user found useful (and sometimes only available) in KDE (on FreeBSD btw). I can't think of an easier way to rip CDs than it is implemented in Konqi, network transparency, stability (note that this heavily depends on the rest of the OS - KDE never crashed on me on FSBD, although there was a small window when the port contained a nasty bug in KUser) - to name a few.

There is one constant in the universe: Eugenia "I'm an UI expert" Loli-Queru" beating the same old "too many features" drum.

Yes, she might be right on certain points (Cervisia in context menus by default?), but saying the KDE has no HIG and GNOME has one is just plain BS. Of course, we were witness to her flamefest fith mosfet over UI issues a while back... Anyhow, I just finished reading the comments when I saw the review posted on /. I was surprised to see how many people hated konqueror (well, all GNOME users of course) - IMHO konqi is the pinnacle of UI design and consistency. An application flamework, that comes as close to the power of CLI as gui-wise is possible. You can mold Konqueror into anything - and this seems to impress even OS X users: check out this review.

Anyhow, I don't expect osnews to change its bias towards (but I was surprised at the review, it was more level headed than usually it is) - and I'm not going to point out every flaw in the criticism (well, I shall point out only two: 1) its the same old argument on part of eugenia 2) check out the screenshots - and tell me: how many of the applications in the menus were KDE specific? ... talking about clutter...) but I want to say this: Keep up the good work KDE developers! And listen to your users (as I know you do) not these so called UI "experts" who think GNOME (don't take me wrong, I like some aspects of GNOME) has the leading edge in usability, despite overwhelming odds (if it is more usable, why do more newbies stay with KDE???)

GUI everything: If it's not a system crash, the desktop PC should be able to handle everything in GUI.

As an interesting sidenote to the incessant mantra that Linux needs to out-GUI Windows and Mac, I ran across this recent review. The user was a long time Mac user who took a six week vacation with FreeBSD/KDE. Not once in the entire review did he even mention the curses-based installer. Maybe the 100% GUI isn't as important to the real world as the cloistered Linux community thinks it is.