Earlier this week, I stumbled on a site that let you play "20 Questions" - you thought of the name of a dictator or a sit-com character, and it was uncannily able to guess who you were thinking of. Fun.
Well, what's not fun is finding out there's some sort of implanted program that changes your home page and forces pop-ups all over your computer which - with no hint of irony - ask you if you want to buy a program preventing arseholes from implanting spybots that change your home page and force pop-ups all over your computer.
Which is what happened. So now the post (and link) are deleted. I hope I did not perpetuate anything, and I sincerely wish the very worst I can imagine on the people who implanted these programs. Amoral scum.
Are you sure that site was the culprit, Nils? I tried it and had no problems (to my knowledge). Maybe you're using a different browser than me. I'm using the Mozilla Firebird browser, which seems to have a pretty good built-in popup stopper. Maybe the program has installed itself, and my browser is keeping me from seeing the popups? Time to do another Adaware and Spybot scan I guess.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Posted by: Rob MacD | January 18, 2004 at 06:24 PM
I use IE (through sheer laziness) ... and I'm not POSITIVE it was that site ... all I know is when my daughter called it up today, she got Java-bombed with pop-ups and all the problems started ... so we put two and two together and that's what we came up with. I deleted the site because - while it's amusing - I don't take chances with this stuff.
Posted by: Nils Ling | January 18, 2004 at 07:09 PM
I experienced no ill effects from visiting this site either. But in the spirit of "sheer laziness" I encourage you to install the Google toolbar (if you haven't already, works with IE) which not only kills pop-ups and allows you to do a quick search, but makes you a better person as well. It saves you from having to open up a browser window and typing "www.google.ca".
Now if only I could get my computer to bring me a hot cup o' joe...
Posted by: Davey | January 18, 2004 at 08:00 PM
Check the date ... it was posted back in January ...
Posted by: Nils | June 27, 2004 at 11:37 AM