Did anyone ever tell you the best things in life are free? In an offline world, that might be true. Well dear readers, it happened to me. One day recently I was sitting in my office looking out my window admiring many of life's freebies - the green grass, a bird chirping, a little kid riding his bike. All of a sudden I looked at my laptop and it was creepingly slow. I thought maybe I had too many open windows. Nope. Maybe I got an e-mail that was too large to download? Nope. It was spyware.