Stupid is as stupid does.

That a google search for malwarebytes has AntiMalwre Pro (see http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-antimalware-pro.html) as the top, sponsored hit.

Never trust a woman with large feet ...

Here's why botnets and, more generally, spam continue to survive - people buy the products advertised!:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527491.500-spamdemic-tracking-the-plague-of-junk-mail.html

(From the text in the graphic) An analysis of just 1.5% of one botnet ("Storm") for one month in 2008 showed:

35 million spams sent
8.2 million passed filtering software
10,500 clicked on the link in the email
28 people actually bought the product

Although this represents only a 0.000008% conversion rate when scaled up it shows that "Storm" generated $3.5 million in sales in 2008.

curry a mobile phone

Maybe you mean "phone a curry"?

http://www.cam.net.uk/~aaa002/phone-a-curry.htm

... that individual's or that village shop's account number and sort code (non-secrets; they can email it, tell you over the phone, publish it) ...

Tell that to Jeremy Clarkson http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7174760.stm

Modded aready ... ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8354166.stm

Here's what happens when a DC and member server are both cloned from the same base image with identical SIDs:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5516
Date: 04/11/2009
Time: 08:52:35
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER01
Description:
The computer or domain SERVER01 trusts domain TESTDOMAIN. (This may be an indirect trust.) However, SERVER01 and TESTDOMAIN have the same machine security identifier (SID). NT should be re-installed on either SERVER01 or TESTDOMAIN.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

But somehow SuperSpeed's RamDisk product (which I use in a 64-bit, 8GB Vista box so as Photoshop can have a 2GB+ scratch disk) offers 32-bit OS users the ability to see and use more than 4GB ...

Do they have to patch kernels to do this ... ? [see http://www.superspeed.com/servers/ramdisk.php%5D

"... his app does nothing except alert onlookers that you had a lot of money, but now $999.99 less ..."