My mother used to be pretty bad for sending those "send this to 10 people" emails or the "this happened to someone I know and I want you to be aware of the horrors of Mr. Clean Erasers" messages. I gave her a link to a snopes article once and told her to stop forwarding me all that stuff and... surprise! She stopped. She still returns my phone calls too.
My dad, on the other hand, is learning all about the exciting world of limewire and other means of downloading stuff from the web. It was a pretty common occurrence to get calls from him asking how to remove this or that or why the computer keeps trying to dial a 1-900 phone number all the time. His computer is riddled with porn and popups and I would guess that at least 30% of it is stuff he didn't intend to download.
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