I recently borrowed John Mullarky's excellent DVD on card weaving from my guild library. I was inspired to get out the weaving cards, probably untouched for 20 years but I knew exactly where they were. I returned the DVD to the guild today and decided to buy some more cards. They didn''t have any with 4 holes but did have some with 6 holes so I bought those. I knew I would need help to use them and also knew that some/all of Peter Collingwood's books were available on line. I looked it up on Google and started to down load what looked like a good source. Before I knew it I had messages that my computer was infected and my web browser had changed and there were pictures there from websites I know I never need to visit. I tried to fix it myself but had to admit defeat and ring the guys who look after the work computers to get them to sort it out.
I have since had a look at Handweaving.net where they have the Collingwood rug weaving and split ply braiding books but not the card weaving one. I expect that weavers are all nice people and that weaving sources on the web are usually safe but obviously I have been lulled into a false sense of security. I thought I would post this here as a warning to others and hopefully might prevent them from having the same problems