Computers inside pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s network are spamming the internet with e-mails touting the company’s flagship erectile-enhancement drug Viagra, along with ads for knockoff Rolexes and shady junk stocks.

But the e-mails are not part of Pfizer’s official marketing efforts.

Pfizer’s computers appear to have been infected with malware that has transformed them into zombie computers sending spam at the behest of a hacker. Oddly enough, they are spamming the public’s inboxes with ads for the company’s own product.

A new hub for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” headlines a slate of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom’s MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter.

TheDailyShow.com, which launches in the fourth quarter, will archive the entire video history of the show including headlines, interviews and the “Back in Black” feature. The portal also will present the previous evening’s episode in its entirety an hour or two after its broadcast.

Comedy Central’s “The Sarah Silverman Program,” MTV’s “Engaged and Underage” and Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” also will get new sites.

The company also will launch a teen girl gaming site, the N’s the-Ngames.com, and a site for video game cheats and hints, WikiCheats.com. Niches sites, ranging from hip-hop dance to stand-up comedy to gay-focused animation, are also in the works. VH1EyeCandy.com, a pop culture site that debuted in beta mode last month, also will fully launch.

The Walt Disney Co’s ABC television network and Warner Bros announced an experimental deal on Thursday for four Warner-produced ABC shows to appear on ABC’s Web-based broadband media player.

ABC already makes several shows from its own production arm, ABC Studios, available for free to viewers on the ad- supported broadband player.

Since its launch in September 2006, the player has streamed all or part of 134 million episodes, ABC data shows. ABC was the first broadcast network to offer its prime time shows for free on the ad-supported player.

The network will sell ads and keep the revenue for the Warner hits, “Men in Trees” and “Notes from the Underbelly” and new shows “Big Shots” and “Pushing Daisies,” which all appear on ABC.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to people who shelled out up to $599 for an iPhone this summer and were burned when the company chopped $200 from the expensive model’s price.

In a letter on the company’s Web site, Jobs acknowledged that Apple disappointed some of its customers by cutting the price of the iPhone’s 8-gigabyte model and said he has received hundreds of e-mails complaining about the price cut.

Jobs added that “the technology road is bumpy,” and there will always be people who pay top dollar for the latest electronics but get angry later when the price drops.

“This is life in the technology lane,” Jobs said in the letter Thursday.