I received the following entertaining spam message. Their product "allows you to securely access and use your office computer from any Web browser anytime, anywhere." I wonder who else it allows to access from any web browser, anywhere :-)

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Doesn't M$ XPlode offer this 'funtionality', ostensibly so your friends can remotely show you how to perform certain tasks with the OS?