Holy crap, I just got spyware and I didn't even know this was possible

[DavidC]

Went to this page:

http://www.freeroms.com/nes.htm

clicked on the "m" link.

and I swear, there was no prompting, no dialog box, NOTHING... a new window popped up, I closed it by right clicking on the window in the taskbar and clicking close, and before I could, 180 search had been installed on my system... now it's popping up useless crap all the time (1 per 30 seconds or so).

I'm going to have to run adaware or something like that.

Anyone have experience iwth this POS? I'm curious about how to remove it, and VERY curious about how it got installed without my permission. Are there I.E. security features I need to enable (sorry, I know, I.E. isn't "the nuts" or anything, but I"m comfortable with it).