It seems like every week anymore that I am contacting some web hosting site or another, asking them to take down copies of my books that are available for illegal download.  Usually it’s His Robot Wife, but not always.  This week it was The Dark and Forbidding Land.

The really upsetting thing about it is that I don’t think they are even really downloading my books.  I would take that as a sort of compliment.  But in most cases, it seems to just be a way to load up people’s computers with malware.  I don’t know what it is about my books that makes them a good choice for this, but as I really hate any type of malware, it’s upsetting.

And here is the call to action part of the post: get some anti-virus on your computer.  In the past, I’ve used and liked both Norton and McAfee, but my favorite is Kaspersky.  I had it on my PC and I bought the Mac version as the very first software purchase when I got my iMac.  If you don’t want to buy something, google “free anti-virus.”  There are some good programs out there free of charge.  For God’s sake, don’t go on the internet without a digital condom.