As living in China, it doesn't seem they were crossing a line. Things gone mad here. If you want to type Chinese, you'll need an IME. Most of Chinese people re

As living in China, it doesn't seem they were crossing a line. Things gone mad here. If you want to type Chinese, you'll need an IME. Most of Chinese people relies on them. It was indeed an exploitable point, that you slip a lot of stuff into it: - News pop-ups of course; - System information gatherer? Sure; - Search engine, convenient; - Anti-Malware software, certainly; - Anti-Virus software, you'll have it; - Homepage? Come on, let's make a bolder move - Browser! - A PC Manager. It's a combination of AV/AM and a software catalog, and the sweetest feature is to tell you how many seconds it took to boot up to your desktop, and shows a % of population you've beat across the nation, people can be bitchy over this. Not just one major software vendor did this, everyone capable did, and still doing. There's also large internet companies that used by people on daily basis uses 0day exploits to push their desktop software. Like if you browse the Chinese part of the internet for one day, you'll end up with bunch of cute little Anti-Virus/cleanup/tweaking goodies rest in your notification area, some times they fight each other and cause BSoD.