Odd Video about Windows Popups.

[Koori23]

http://ebaumsworld.com/2007/01/misspelled-google.html

I searched the forums for this, couldn't find it. If it's a re-post, I'm sorry.

I did type goggle.com, I just saw two ads.. Firefox blocked all the others probably.. Just a flashback to my old Windows days.

[GStubbs43]

Yeah, on Windows I don't even get any popups with Firefox anyway... But, there is another thread on here, that has the same video, just on a different website, so it would be hard for you to search for and find. Just thought I'd let you know, there's a discussion about it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292936

Wow, it seems like my last 3 or 4 posts have all been telling people about their post being a repost. :tongue:

[happy-and-lost]

Ah.... good times.

SpySheriff is a **** nightmare to get rid of, it evolves. It took me weeks to remove it from a friend's machine. She *still* won't be persuaded to use Linux.

[Koori23]

Yep, that's probably why I didn't find that it was a repost.. Sorry about that ladies and gents. Either way, it's out there (again) for all of us to enjoy.

[ma1kel]

It was a demo by an anti-virus company to show what happens when you visit the url in Windows XP without any updates or SPs, running the oldest IE that comes with it.

[insane_alien]

/me wanders off to try this in VMware

uhh just to check, this won't affect the host will it?

[Beamerboy]

Why the hell haven't the authorities shut that down?

Paladine

[insane_alien]

because it generates a fortune in revenue for tech support.

... and its funny.

[EdThaSlayer]

That video was funny. Nice find!

[Choad]

giggle

[bastiegast]

Hmm tried it in IE 6.0 in wine. Two adds:KS

[Polygon]

they cut off the part where its an advertisement for macaffee.

and its greatly exaggerated, as in that all wont happen at once... but you get the point.

[MkfIbK7a]

lol the part about the 16mb-subsystem brings back windows memories