--- 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 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
