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BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
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Guess What -- You Asked For Those Pop-Up Ads Software lodged in your PC follows your Web wanderings and slings up relevant pitches.   |
Fast Company
November 2004
Alan Deutschman |
The Ad Agency on Your Hard Drive How Web software called "adware" is taking advertising to a new, effective, and extremely annoying level. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Claria: The Napster Of Pop-Up Advertising The smart course may be to let the risks play out before Claria's IPO, letting investors know whether they'll buy a rocket or a dud. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Funding Spyware? Analyst Ben Edelman charges Yahoo with supporting spyware companies by having them distribute its pay-per-click ads. He says that advertisers should be told what they are getting. |
Wired
December 2005
Annalee Newitz |
Don't Call It Spyware Three years ago Gator (now Claria) was considered a parasite and a scourge. Today it's a rising star - selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Ben Elgin |
For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up Yahoo! could do more to fix adware problems. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2004
Erin Joyce |
A Hobbled Anti-Spyware Law California has its first anti-spyware bill, but it doesn't do enough to terminate the growing use of spyware that logs your moves online. And don't expect to see much stronger legislation in Congress. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004 |
Avi Naider, Adware Crusader The chief exec of WhenU says he hates spyware as much as anyone, but his product is different. Here he explains |
InternetNews
May 1, 2007
Lisa Nadile |
Report: Microsoft to Buy 24/7 Rumors circulated today that Microsoft is in talks to buy 24/7 Media, an online advertising and search-engine marketing company. |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Melissa Campanelli |
A Pop-Up Victory Competitors' ads could muscle in on your Web site. |
InternetNews
July 12, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Shifting Adware Approach? Is Microsoft hot on Claria or soft on adware? Microsoft has been criticized for changing the ratings of Claria and other adware in its Anti-Spyware product. Experts describe the deceptive practices used by some adware. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004 |
Ben Edelman, Adware Scourge This 24-year-old law student-expert witness says he's "100% convinced that spyware is a fair label" for advertising software. |
PC World
November 2005
Tynan & Spring |
The Hidden Money Trail Those programs that pelt you with ads and bog down your PC are financed by some of America's largest companies. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
Toddi Gutner |
What's Lurking in Your PC? Because it's so new and still evolving, many computer users don't understand spyware. Here's a quick tutorial to bring you up to date on this insidious problem. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
How To Stymie The Snoop In Your PC Besides viruses, now you have to watch out for spyware. This software snoops on your online activities and sends the info to third parties without your knowledge. Learn how to protect yourself from these sneaky programs. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2004
Janis Mara |
Advertising Beyond The Browser The desktop comes into its own as an ad medium. |
InternetNews
January 25, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ganging Up on Badware Harvard and Oxford team with Google, Lenovo and Sun for an online neighborhood watch. It will write standards and testing procedures to define what badware is, a topic of much contention with online advertisers. |
PC World
July 2005
Andrew Brandt |
Can You Trust Your Spyware Protection? Determining what classifies as spyware is a difficult problem, and would-be spyware manufacturers try to make sure their software is not blacklisted by the major anti-spyware tools. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
David Miller |
Spitzer Files Spyware Suit New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing an Internet advertising firm he claims surreptitiously installed millions of pop-up ad producing programs on individuals' computers. |
PC World
April 2004
Liane Cassavoy |
Bye-Bye, Pop-Ups. Hello...? Pop-up ads, those reviled windows that intrude on your Web surfing, seem to be on the decline. But don't celebrate yet: New forms of advertising that may be just as annoying and even more intrusive are likely to replace them. |
PC World
February 2005
Brandt & Dahl |
New Ad Attacks Ads and adware have a new way to get on your PC: via music and video files. We show how they do it and how to stop them. |
BusinessWeek
April 24, 2006
Grow & Helm |
Your Ad Here. And Here. And Here How a web of middlemen is hijacking the placement of online ads - and cashing in. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Microsoft Plays Catch-Up Reports have Mr. Softy going hot after 24/7 Real Media. Investors, don't trade on the rumor -- but it sure makes it fun to watch. |
PC World
November 2001
Tom Spring |
Consumer Alert: Stealth Ad Invasion Don't look now, but your computer may be harboring software that lets unwanted advertising in... |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
How To: Protect Your Computer Protecting your computer is easier than you might think. Here is a list of protection software that will keep your computer clean as a whistle and virus-free. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2005
Roy Mark |
Bad Actors Safe Under Spyware Legislation? Congress should do less, rather than more, when it comes to federal anti-spyware bills. |
PC World
July 2004
Tom Spring |
Striking Back at Spyware States, feds consider regulating intrusive software. |
InternetNews
April 10, 2007
David Needle |
Claria Looks To Solve Personalization Puzzle Axon personalization platform delivers customized content to users automatically. |
PC World
February 2004
Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Gain Extra Protection With Adware Scanner Secrets Put the extra features of Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware to work for you. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2004
Rex Moore |
Judge Bars Pop-Ups When last we left WhenU.com, it had won a court victory allowing it to serve whatever pop-up ads it wanted on top of U-Haul's website, even those of a competitor. A few more legal victories followed, but now a judge in New York has reversed course. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Adware Called Too Cozy With Spyware The Center for Democracy and Technology says complex relationships allow responsible parties to dodge liability even if Congress passes an anti-spyware bill. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
A Higher Google Standard? Should Google put a stop to spyware infiltrating Blogspot, which it owns? |
InternetNews
January 21, 2004
Janis Mara |
Interactive Companies Play the Name Game Why change your company's name? Some in the interactive marketing space share their reasoning. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 13, 2003 |
Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work? E-commerce experts at Wharton and elsewhere say pop-ups are not universally loathed and irrevocably worthless. But collectively they can indeed be a nuisance. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Ben Elgin |
Yahoo's Pop-Up Connection Yahoo! Inc. has become one of the spyware industry's main benefactors. Since 2003 the Sunnyvale titan has indirectly supplied ads to - and shared millions of revenue dollars with - Direct Revenue and its rivals. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2005
Roy Mark |
Claria Exec Joins DHS Privacy Committee Chief privacy officer for adware firm formerly known as Gator is now representative on panel advising in privacy issues. |
PC World
December 2004
Andrew Brandt |
Poor Defenders Some anti-spyware companies use confusing ads, and our tests show their $20-$60 products are less effective than free competitors. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Stephen Baker |
Pop-Up Ads Had Better Start Pleasing With the means to block them on the rise, their last hope is to entice, rather than irritate |
PC World
June 2003
Scott Spanbauer |
Internet Tips The Knock-Down Pop-Ups 2003 Compendium... Kill a sticky anticopy utility... create and view PDFs for free... update your software apps. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google's Calling? Google might want you to lend it your ears. But given the fact that a Google phone is still in the realm of rumors, investors should put excitement on hold and wait for some real news. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2004
Janis Mara |
Gates Weighs In On Spyware Issue Microsoft's chairman says 'parasitic' software is turning the Internet into a billboard. |
PC Magazine
May 5, 2004
John Clyman |
McAfee AntiSpyware McAfee AntiSpyware is a solid--but not impenetrable--defense against spyware and adware |
InternetNews
June 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Spyware Sneaking into the Enterprise Not just for consumers anymore, invasive programs are finding comfort in the corporate realm and leaving more than unwanted ads in their wake. |
InternetNews
November 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
Travel Companies, Cingular Settle Adware Case Three online advertisers have to pony up $100,000 and promise to stop using controversial adware as part of a settlement with New York State's Attorney General. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Larry Seltzer |
Is It Spyware? The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) has presented definitions and supporting documents for what is considered spyware to help standardize anti-spyware software. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004
Kelly Martin |
Unmasking Spyware Today's Internet threats often arrive so quietly that they're undetectable, allowing he malicious code more time to identify and extract additional sensitive information, including passwords, decryption keys and keystrokes. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
Settlement in the Air at Time Warner The media giant set aside $3 billion to settle class action suits with shareholders upset about the merger with AOL. Hours later, the FTC announced that a subsidiary of AOL settled charges for not disclosing the true nature of bundled adware. |
Entrepreneur
September 2009
Jason Daley |
Anatomy of a Rumor How the office rumor starts, proliferates and can be stopped. |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Destroy Rumors The best way to destroy rumors is by nipping them in the bud -- before they spiral dangerously out of control. |
