CNET and CBS Interactive serving malware

Had cause to need the Windows XP Powertoy and it’s not at Microsoft. Found it at CNET’s Download.com. Installed it and watched what I was doing but all of a sudden something hijacks Chrome. Home page is suddenly something Babylon. I deleted it from Tools > Extensions (even though I’d not installed it) and it takes every other extension with it. I use Hijackthis and find it has installed BHO’s. Using that and Crap Cleaner I manage to rid the machine of this malware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Corporation
are peddlers of the lowest form of scummy crap on the net.

Texas.

A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas, a state that rejects scientific consensus and instead applies its own definition of learning difficulties based on a character in a John Steinbeck novel.
The Guardian

This is also the state that elected George W. Bush as Governor.

The post category USA-WTF has never been more appropriate.