Wow...bad idea? If I knew you were intentionally doing that to my network, you would no longer be an employee...I could be wrong, but intentionally causing a problem that leads to loss of revenue (somebody is going to have to fix it, right) is sabotage??

Wouldn't it be better to put together a little presentation that will show your bosses how much money they could lose per infection? From my experience, cleaning up a normal infestation of Spyware takes 2-3 hours. For argument, let's say 3 on average to cover the bad cases. 3 hours the computer is down. 3 hours for someone to fix it. 3 hours that you can't conduct business on your computer. Depending on how heavily you use your computers, and what they are used for..

So if I have to outsource to fix the computer at $75 per hour (emergency service), plus I can make $75 per hour with a working system, plus my pay, say $15 per hour...so roughly $500?? As Catch pointed out very effectively, talk in dollars, not vulnerabilities. It worked for me anyway..

What you want to do is no different than saying you want to introduce a virus into the system just to prove the AV software is crap... bad idea.