Traditional Phishing e-mails try to trick you into clicking on a link and filling out an on-screen norm so that hackers and crackers can get you to post your personal financial innormation. You'll be told that if you don't fill in the requested innormation something bad will happen, like your bank account or your e-bay account will be shut down. Now there's a new Phishing scam being tried out in Brazil, which means that it will come to the United States when it has been perfected. This new Phishing e-mail is really dangerous. It's aimed at people that do online banking. It will do its dirty work the minute you open it. There is no link to click on and no attachment to open. When you open this bad boy e-mail, it runs a script that tries to rewrite the host files in your computer so that the next time you try to access your online banking service, you will unknowingly be redirected to a fraudulent Web site designed to capture the details of your online banking login. But take heart, because the news is not all bad. There is a defense against these vicious intruders. You can disable your Windows ability to run these scripts. For Win 98, click on Start, Settings, and then on Control Panel. From within Control Panel, double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon. Now click on the Windows Setup tab. Select Accessories and double-click. Scroll down, look for VBSCRIPT SCRIPT FILE. If you don't find it, you don't have to do anything else. If you do find it, highlight it and click on the Delete button. Click on Yes to finish. That's it. You're done. For Windows ME, 2000 or Windows XP, you'll need to be logged on as an administrator. Double-click on My Computer on the Desktop for Windows ME or 2000, or in XP click on Start and then on My Computer. From within My Computer, click on Tools and then on Folder Options. Click on the File Types tab. Locate the VBSCRIPT SCRIPT FILE. If you don't find it, you don't have to do anything else. If you find it, highlight it and click on the Delete button. Click Yes to confirm. Once you have disabled VBSCRIPTING, you are safe from these new Phishing e-mails.