Extreme marketing in the new millennium: Here come the
banner ads which install spyware, disable firewall software; the rogue pop-up ad
in question uses a Shockwave applet and an Internet Explorer bug to surreptitiously download and install the software onto the user's PC. Needless to say, it only affects the 99.999% of users who use Windows; Maccies and Penguinheads can look smug.
Ha ha! Wintel bastards can suck it!