Dan Tynan

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Many a reputation has gone swirling down the tubes, thanks to the Net's ability to expose scoundrels, scalawags, liars, cheats, and fools -- and then broadcast the scandal to a billion glowing screens. Here are our picks for the 10 all-time biggest scandals on the Internet.

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12. The Dancing Baby Both strangely amusing and deeply disturbing, the famous dancing toddler boogied its way across the internet and into the spotlight, appearing on both Ally McBeal and a Blockbuster video commercial during the mid-nineties. There are now dozens of variations on thousands of sites. If you're looking for the parties responsible for giving birth to this phenomenon, blame its parents at Burning Pixel Productions.

PCworld.com brings you a countdown of the 25 Web sites that have managed to swindle us out of our money, enslave our computers and hold the net hostage with endless spam, pop up screens and teenage-on-a-rampage web design.

21. Golden Palace Casino Websites used to do just about anything to make headlines and Golden Palace's ad campaigns took that idea just about as far as it could go. From buying the "Holy Toast" -- the grilled cheese sandwich that looks like the Virgin Mary -- to buying William Shatner's kidney stone, no promotional gimmick is too cheesy for this online casino.

4. CD Universe In December 1999 a Russian hacker named Maxim broke into the music retailer's site, stole 350,000 credit card numbers, and then demanded $100,000 in ransom. When CD Universe refused to pay, Maxim posted 25,000 of the numbers to a website. At the time, CD Universe was owned by eUniverse, which combined its site and its customer database on an unprotected server. "Basically, they put the candy jar in plain sight and left the cover off," says current CD Universe owner Chuck Beilman. "It was only a matter of time until someone stole the candy." CD Universe's customer database is now separate from the website, encrypted and protected by a firewall.