I have a quick question....these new thingeys...are they safe?
My husband is having a widget attack!

I only have 3 so far on this unit...and I have to admit they are fun.
I have a clock which chimes every 15 minutes to remind me of my time spent LOL which we run almost transparent. And 2 others on my wallpaper start up..
Werewolf (which shows the phases of the moon)..a thing handy for my
profession LOL and a new one from Purina that lets you put your own pet (or other picture) in it and shows the weather customized to you. I figured out how to hide the Purina logo by running it off the screen It is cute too.

But my husband has put 6 on the new laptop...one that monitors the battery, and some others. I guess these are all the rage? As long as one has enough
resources? We got them from Yahoo.

But because I hate to download things, are they really safe? We ran virus scan and that seems okay, so far. But I wonder if they have some back door that we don't know about? etc? I just don't trust "free" things! sigh.