--- Gregory Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As you said, you can't make this up...   From CNN's "101
> dumbest moments in Business", #38...

Since it made a CNN list (not to mention this one), it may
not have been such a dumb business idea, in the end. 
Wonder if it increased his business?

> To test Google's ability to block harmful advertising,
Belgian IT security consultant Didier Stevens posts an ad
that reads "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"
It is accepted by Google and displayed 259,723 times; 409
web surfers actually click on the ad.

I'd have a hard time resisting that one, just to see what
happened.  In the late 90s I noticed that McAfee had one
(and only one!) URL that was blocked by default.  I built a
Windows PC from scratch and went straight to that site, it
was awesome!  Flashed up buckets of popups and ate the
machine alive almost immediately... :~)

-chris "OK kids, never *ever* use these Seven Words!" blask

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