DODGY repair shops

Sky News will have scared the hell out of a lot of home computer users with this story. Gary Glitter was exposed as a paedophile several years ago thanks to the files on his computer which he had left in for repair - the fact that the repair techie was rooting around his hard-drive got lost in the bigger story. The Sky team found that most repair shops routinely searched through people's private infiormation as a matter of course. The lesson to be learned is that if (sorry, when) your PC goes wallop change your passwords before handing in the machine for repair.