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If only people didn't install Ask Jeeves toolbars all over the place and then asked their grandson during vacations to clean their computer.


Geez, this brings back memories.

At one time at our university we had table desktop dancers installed everywhere. Was kind of funny when it turned up just as a student wanted to defend their work in a lab.


Hey I made some good money from that as a kid. And some of the malware that people ended up with was also fairly visually pleasing to a teenager.




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