And think about security. The company's data remains at the company, it is never stored at the remote worker's home. For that alone, I prefer RDP for all remote workers by FAR.

Kent Sharkey wrote:

I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"

Brand recognition as goal? The meaning of the word 'spam' has shifted, but back in the 90's, any advertisement through forums, usenet newsgroups etc. would be considered spam. What this guy (and any viral marketer) did could be called creative spam. Creative, but it still makes him a spammer, the lowest of the lowlife to be found under internet rocks. But if spamming didn't pay off, we'd see a lot less of it. I clearly remember Amazon being nicknamed Spamazon, just because they took the fact that you ordered something from them as your permission to start e-mailing you their ads. Back then it made me and a lot of people mad, but when some etailer does it today, all I do is sigh, start searching for the unsubscribe link, and hope it works.

This reminds me of the Windows 95 days, must have been 1996 or 97 or so. Win95 was so unstable that I had to reinstall practically every week. It grew to be a routine: Windows (including Format C: ), MacAfee, Word, Visual Basic (5 or 6, don't remember). Symptoms were always the same: visit a web site, close Internet Explorer, and about 5 seconds after it closed you could get an access violation caused by (as the message said) Internet Explorer. That wasn't running anymore. If I didn't *immediately* shut down Windows at that point, the next thing that happened would be a blue screen about 30 seconds later, more often than not accompanied by a corrupt directory structure on C: and the umpteenth reinstall. One day, it happened again and I had NO time to spare, so I skipped MacAfee in the reinstall routine. Three months later, I still hadn't seen any of the above symptoms anymore. The system was as stable as a rock, and even today, MacAfee still has never had another chance to crawl onto one of my disks.