Hi,

  I'm asking this question in the Mac Section because my colleague is experiencing a spam problem using Macs.

Lately, whenever he does a search (FireFox), within hours he gets a slew of spam relating to the same topic/s.  He uses Gmail for emails, and says that even just writing an email seems to generate spam.

My research shows that ISP's and email service providers tend to go to extraordinary lengths to prevent spam or address harvesting, yet his experience does go contrary to that.  As an example, he searched out cruises recently, and then started getting spam emails from all sorts of cruise companys within a day or two.

Gmail does catch a lot of these emails and dumps them into his Spam Folder, but why should they be generated in the first place?  Viral infection?

R.