Ok, I've downloaded the google thing and will give it a go. I haven't used a modem for connection to the net in several years, and I hadn't really realised how bad the situation had become. Finding that your 46K link is actually transferring useful data at a whole 287 bytes per seconds is a bit of a shock. Then finding out that this is because some site you clicked on in a google search 20 minutes ago has spawned some script which has been happily downloading background popups featuring remarkably hard-core porn (straight, not-so-straight, and positively corkscrew-shaped), ads, text files, at least two trojans (luckily pccillin caught them), and some of the weirdest [censored] I've ever seen is just annoying. I think the site in question was a paintball one, but I'm not sure.

How much of the available internet bandwidth is taken up by this crap, do you suppose? And do the ads ever work? I mean, I'm not against porn per se, but if one wanted some surely one would look for it, not just follow links at random on the off chance that the donkey-shagger ad led to something useful?

Just seems like a waste of time and resources to me.

pca