One of most prevalent yet overlooked ways your personal information and passwords may be being compromised is through presence of Spyware on your computer.

Note these very disturbing Facts about Spyware and Identity Theft:

- 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in last five years, including 9.91 million people or 4.6% of population in last year alone.

- Spyware infects 91% of all computers. That equates to an alarming 9 out of 10 computers!

Stop thinking Identity Theft can’t happen to you. It can.

Spyware is without doubt most prevalent threat to online computer privacy and security.

You maybe wondering, exactly what is Spyware?

Spyware applications are programs and files that hide on your PC's hard drive without your direct knowledge. They allow hackers and advertising companies to track your every move, both online and even when you work offline.

Tracking websites you visit, items that you buy online, emails you send and receive, your Instant Message dialog, and worst of all they can even record your credit card number, personal identification numbers, and all of your passwords.

If you tweak your site to perform better in search rankings then you practice science of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It's possible to start using PHP scripts on your site without losing that high ranking of yours.

You've probably noticed your site rise and fall in search engine rankings quite a bit. That's just how it goes since search engines such as Google like to change their algorithms around.

If one day you decide to rename all files on your site you can be sure your Google listing will moved off page 1 of your target search keyword onto back-listings of page 67 and beyond.

When you rename a file on your site, and another site links to that file, anyone coming to your site thru that particular link will get an error. When a search engine crawler sees this, it decides your site and decides either to lower your ranking or delete URL from its search results entirely.

Search engines don't want to send their visitors to Not-Found pages... makes sense, doesn't it?

Okay, so let's say you don't want to have a ton of broken links across your site, which will cause you to drop in search results, but you want to tinker with PHP a little bit.

There's an easy fix for that. You can actually name your PHP scripts so that they end in .htm or .html, and have them run as PHP scripts on your web server. So from outside world it'll look as if your site is full of "updated-by-hand" content.

All you have to do is add this line to your .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm