That article is kind of saddening because it&#x27;s incredibly naive.<p>At the very least the &quot;ad&quot; was being run by someone trying to create an air of legitimacy around events like... a random popup IN YOUR BROWSER telling you about host system software you might actually need and should therefore go right ahead and install.<p>Oh HELL no.  If it&#x27;s part of someone&#x27;s malware campaign, it should be categorized malware.  That some dinky piece of their campaign doesn&#x27;t involve machine-executable code does <i>not</i> matter in the slightest.<p>The weasely logic needing to justify allowing deliberate attempts at mis-education is how one gets sites for which navigation is rather like attempting to defuse a bomb, blindfolded, while riding a stampeding buffalo.