Most of my friends in the Adlandpro Business Building and Internet Marketing Community do not wish to spend the rest of their lives in a JOB, which we define as a situation that leaves leaves people “Just Over Broke.” It is a civilised Community in a cyberspace jungle, where we share ideas and help one another to create additional income streams. I hope that you will accept my invitation to join our community and make friends with people like John, Napoleon and Cheri. We can introduce ourselves with the amazing free profile that is supplied to all Adlandpro Community members. If you would like a free Adlandpro Community Profile like mine, please accept my personal invitation to create one. The Adlandpro Wizard will help you with each step. Click HERE. I will try to introduce my London readers to three Adlandpro members in each issue of Path2prosperity News.


I can remember crying my eyes out when I was a child. My big brother told me that fairies did not exist and I had no fairy godmothers. I did not believe him. I cried even more when I saw my first pantomime. It seemed so unfair that poor Cinderella should have a fairy godmother who was a man! John and Nap have literally saved my bacon by coming to my rescue in the cyberspace jungle, that we call the World Wide Web. These must be the fairy godmother’s, which I never met in my childhood dreams!

I have vivid memories of two recent occasions, when I was on the verge of having “The Screaming Ab Dabs.” Everything that could have gone wrong, had gone wrong. I sent an urgent plea for help to all my Adlandpro friends. The two who waved a magic wand and solved my problems were John and Nap. Please take a look at a picture of the pair of them before I tell you any more. Wouldn’t it be fun to cast a pantomime and see them helping Cinderella out of trouble?

John Partington’s motto always makes me snigger. He says that “A friend in need is a pain in the ass.” John must have a very sore backside with friends like me taking advantage of his good nature. I had had a massive “ clean and tidy” binge. I deleted my web site from the server to get rid of all the unwanted files. When I uploaded the tidy version, it was a complete disaster. There was some hidden code on my index page, which caused Google Ads to appear all over the text of more than fifty pages. I did not have a clue what was wrong. John came to my rescue. I gave him access to my server and he cleared up the mess. If you purchase a product or service from John, you can rest assured that you have a webmaster who provides superior levels of customer service.

Napoleon Jones Nap set up his computer sales and service business when he retired from the Armed Forces in 1997. His commitment to his customers is expressed with these words “Providing customers and clients the best values in Computers and Technology today” He specialises in telecom services for small and medium sized businesses. He also provides International telecom services for residential customers. Nap rescued me from a ghastly situation just before Christmas. I had put in a tremendous amount of time and effort in order to get my web site rated in Alexa Stats top million and I was nearly in the top 500, 000, when the site vanished from their records. When I checked the domain in Alexa all I could see was my site’s text but no reference to my domain appeared on their thumbnail images. I screamed for help. Nap answered. He told me that all I needed was a friend, who would write a review of the site on Amazon to encourage the Alexa bots to revisit it. The site reappeared in Alexa stats and started rising. Nap had reviewed it and given it a five star rating.


There are so many talented people of all ages and cultures in Adlandpro that it is very hard to choose one person. I wanted to highlight somebody younger from the Southern Hemisphere but it doesn’t work like that. I chose Cheri for several reasons.

Cheri Merz. Cheri describes herself as an Anglophile. It is not surprising that she can relate to “We British.” She has qualities that we admire so much. She has beautiful manners and she really is full of grace. Previous generations would have described her as “one of nature’s gentlemen” I know you are not hermaphrodite Cheri but the world gentleperson is not in my lexicon and you have told us that your gender is female rather than trans sexual! Cheri also describes herself as a “late bloomer”, one who believes it is never too late to start a new career and achieve success. She is a source of inspiration to those who feel that they are never going to catch up with today’s technology. Please introduce yourself to Cheri and subscribe to her regular newsletters. She has charmed many young and not so young members of the Adlandpro community.


Many of my readers from SW London and surrounding areas may not not know that this is a subject, which nearly everybody who trades on the Internet has been discussing during the last few weeks. Please bear with me while I fill them in.

If you live in the UK, it is a shock to discover that £ sterling is not an acceptable currency for the majority of Internet traders. You can use sterling to buy yourself some knickers from a High Street chain store at 2am in the morning, a book from Amazon UK or a crate of fine wines from a UK wholesale outlet. It is not an International currency. Very few Internet sites use £ sterling. The only International Internet currencies at this stage are $US or gold. If you are local and feel a bit confused, you are welcome to send me an e-mail or telephone me. More information about using these currencies with UK banks HERE

Crime is and always has been the biggest growth industry. Crime prevention is second, but it is possible to learn a bit about the e-gold hacker’s trade marks and avoid being a victim. The e-gold hacker is probably a gang. He, she or the gang produce copies of e-gold web sites, which are so realistic that a lot of people have given the hacker information which enables it to access the funds in their genuine e-gold account. The answer to the e-gold hacker is eternal vigilance. Always remember to log out of a program that contains any of your private details or passwords. Follow the instructions on the e-gold home page religiously. Check for updates from your firewall, antivirus, spyware and adware software every day. The hacker has made copies of numerous sites, from which shoppers make payments. Do not make a payment from any site unless you see the lock icon, which indicates a secure encrypted site, in your computer’s task bar. It is so easy to forget this when you are busy. Scrutinise the merchant’s account details before you make any payment in e-gold. If the account number has changed, the odds are fairly high on it being the hacker’s work. When you get a PIN number from the genuine e-gold robot, it never ask you to confirm that PIN. The hackers copy of the robots e-mail asks you to confirm your PIN. You can do it without thinking. I did.

I am very impressed with “E-gold Customer Service.” I noticed that things seemed odd, when I tried to make a payment to Phoenix Surf. I did not suspect the hacker because Phoenix Surf would not accept the money, that I wanted to pay them. I thought it was just a glitch on their site, so I got on with something else. When I opened my e-mail there was a message from e-gold asking me to change my passphrase, if I had not made any changes to my account settings. It was too late, the hacker had beaten me to it. It was lucky that I only had $10 in my account at the time, as the hacker decided to wait until I had more to steal. I sent an urgent e-mail to e-gold telling them that the problem started when I was on the Phoenix surf site. I had an International telephone call within within minutes. They gave me a temporary passphrase and I was able to get into my account and change the settings back to the default secure settings. Phoenix Surf started out with good intentions but their security was never up to the standard that was required for an autosurf site. The good news is that e-gold were aware of this and were very quick off the mark when you reported anything untoward on the Phoenix site.


It is a bit of a bitter pill for “We British” and other members of “The Eurozone” to swallow, but the North Americans are years ahead of us in in e-commerce. Why do we need to be suspicious about things from the other side of the pond in this day and age? The Scandinavian Countries and Ireland are ahead of most of the European Countries in e-commerce but they are still not as geared up to the changes as the USA and Canada. What can you loose by getting up to date with a card from Xlentopps which enables you to draw funds from your e-gold account in $ sterling and other currencies. I applied for one, which arrived this morning. I chose a Xlentopps debit card because they come from an established Canadian corporation, that has been developing e-currency products since 1999.

I have tested Xlentopps automatic payment processor on the XLO Autosurf site. This is a real break through, not a hyped up service promoted by the autosurf industry. Try it out. You only need $5 in e-gold to buy one upgrade chip on XLO Autosurf. Surf the 15 sites and cashout daily. I raised my principal so that I could earn $5 a day from XLO. The automatic cashout works like a dream. Daily earnings from the surfing are transferred in real time and there has not been a single glitch this month.

You do not have to be a member of the XLO Autosurf program or any of their programs to get a debit card. These people are e-currency brokers. Andy from XLOAutosurf is an extremely helpful technical support agent, who answers e-mails very promptly. He tells me that he has more customers in Ireland than the UK at present but that is good news. If they work in Ireland the cards do not have problems processing the £ sign, like so many issued by other banks. There is a flat 4% fee for loading the ATM of your choice with funds from an e-currency source. You can apply for your Xlentopps card here.

The E-Gold hacker and e-gold debit cards. Eternal vigilance and common sense. Two essential deterrents.
Hard porn images that bring trojans, greyware and malware in their wake. Why they can appear on anybody’s screen.
Have you read Nick Leeson’s Autobiography? Was he a recidivist criminal, an opportunist thief or a victim?
Internet Communities. Meet some of my Internet friends who are members of the Adlandpro Community.


I have not read the book but it is one that I would like to read when I get more time to relax. A friend who advised me to read it, said that it was really meaty but she found a lot of it very difficult to understand. I remembered that I must buy a copy or order it from the library when I tried to answer a question posted by one of my Internet friends in a forum.

My friend was thinking about applying for an e-gold credit card. He asked why US and Canadian banks had subsidiary Companies in places like Hong Kong, when they had friends and allies across the Atlantic pond. Nobody had anything constructive to say, so I added a comment. I said that we should read Nick’s book and see if we could glean some ideas from that. Please send me your comments so that I can publish your views in the next issue. All I know about the Nick Leeson saga is what I read in the papers. If am not sure whether Nick Leeson is not a familiar name on the North American continent, so I will tell you that he was a rogue trader, who is reputed to have caused the collapse of one of our oldest and most respected banking institutions. Guilty or not guilty? A really good subjects for low brow chat.

When I read the news, I thought that Nick was a scapegoat but I have modified that opinion now. I think Nick committed a crime because it was so easy to commit that sort of crime when he was a banker. I think he was an opportunist thief. Was he a recidivist criminal? I doubt it but I am open to suggestion. I think he was one of those people who needed a very long rope in order to fulfil his potential in his working environment. Did his superiors give him enough rope to hang himself on purpose? Did they want a scapegoat? Have the banks and other institutions, which deal with International currencies and trade managed to patch up the holes in the system which allowed an unscrupulous trader like Nick to exploit them? Why did Nick’s supervisors not draw in the rope that they had given him. Responsible management must have been aware that he was over reaching his authority?

If Nick was an opportunist thief rather than a recidivist criminal, he was very severely punished for his crime. I read one comment that he made, when he was released and it touched my heart. He said that he had lost everything except for one true friend, one friend for whom he would be prepared to sacrifice his life. He said that the friend was also his father.
Please add your comments if you have read the book. It is a topic that should concern us all when we start trading with the mass of hew plastic and e-gold cards.


I had no idea about this until I got a backdoor trojan which unleashed a whole host of viruses. I took the brand new computer, which I had picked up three days earlier back to the shop, where I had bought it. The first thing that systems engineer asked was, had any of the porno sites had got through my security. I told him that one had got through on the first day that I had used the computer. His advice was to never switch off hard porn and assume that the problem was fixed. He warned me about the sort of trojans which could follow in their wake.

He was right. I had deleted the images but copies must have been lurking somewhere because I had to take the computer back a few days later. I was enjoying an early morning cup of tea and waking up at a nice relaxed pace when I got something that put me off my tea and breakfast. “Rear Entry Delight” had deposited a whole gallery of pictures for me to view before breakfast. Instinct took over. I switched the slide show off and forgot all about the intrusion. I did not check to see if they had caused any damage to my host file, which was stupid. The systems engineer had told me what to do if porn did get through their recommended firewall anti virus and other security software and I forgot all about his advice.

If you get hard porn there is a quick test that he showed me. Open the Internet TOOLS menu, select Internet Options, then the Security tab. There are two options on that screen Custom and Default. If there is anything more dangerous than the unpleasant “Rear Entry Art Gallery”, the option to restore Default settings and Apply will be switched off paving the way for visitors like the e-gold hacker. If you do not get this sorted, you are vulnerable. Our local shop in Putney will send send an e-mail with a replacement file as an attachment but a lot of software support people charge a very fat fee to do this. If you live anywhere near Putney London SW15 you can get Digitech Computers details from my Unsolicited Testimonials Web Page. They build one off systems to suit your specific needs and wallet. The support is absolutely superlative.

There is another solution. Cyberscrub is a product which will delete absolutely all porn and all deleted files, (that are never completely deleted), from your hard disk and e-mail records by Windows. All information that is of any interest to a hacker, nosy parker or dishonest computer engineer can be erased beyond forensic recovery with this product. It is used by the military and the Company credentials are beyond reproach. It is usually $49 to download the Cyberscrub Privacy Suite. Take a look at the web site. If you are interested in buying the product, I may be able to get you a cheaper copy. Please let me know if you would be interested in getting a download link for $29.95. If you would rather buy it with sterling straight away, you can download it from this link Cyberscrub Privacy Suite. It costs £28.35

I used the product before I upgraded all my software but I have not put it on my present system because I have a technical support contract with Digitech Computers and my systems software is their design. If I deleted records that they need to fix the constant problems that my ham fisted actions cause, I would have to face a large bill rather than the usual lecture that I get every time that I daunt their doorstep with some self inflicted disaster.