In other Belgian news… 
Want to know where your relatives live? Where your roots are? Look it up here. It can’t get any more accurate, since it’s federal data. The data are not actual but still quite recent (1998). There also exists a Dutch version.
The Belgian government have set up a web site to inform its citizens about spam and how to avoid it. I think it’s a good initiative as it states some truly useful information a lot people probably don’t know.
On the first page already (probably the only page most people read ;)), they state 4 basic rules (which I support 100%):
I think they deserve praise for the way they managed to condense the whole spam story and what you can do about it in just one informative page.
If you understand Dutch or French (what about the German speaking Belgians? :)), read on here.
You may have noticed you have this process running, even if you’re not using Internet Explorer (I want to distance myself from any IE usage by saying I installed the toolbar for my parents :)). This post explains everything in detail. It’s an agent which tries to keep google as the default search engine. You can simply disable it in the toolbar settings by unchecking the item “Notify me on settings change”.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work in my case… I disabled the checkbutton on all 3 user accounts. I did notice I have a slighter newer version than the one on the google system blog: I have 4.0.1020. This version is even not documented yet in the Google Toolbar Changelog?? I decided to uninstall since my parents probably don’t use it anyway. 