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InternetNews
April 28, 2005
Tim Gray |
New York Sues Internet Marketing Firm New York's Attorney General alleges that California's Intermix Media is installing spyware on PCs.   |
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. |
InternetNews
February 16, 2007
Roy Mark |
DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers. |
PC World
June 2006 |
In Brief Wireless products based on the 802.11n draft standard debut... Lawsuit against online ad firm for installing spyware... |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Out with a Bang Eliot Spitzer may have less than a month left as New York State's attorney general, but the governor elect says there two new Wall Street cases he's taking on before year's end. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2006
Roy Mark |
Zango Settles FTC Adware Charges The controversial adware distributor agrees to pay $3 million and provide consumer consent notices. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2005
Roy Mark |
FTC Targets Spyware Operation Lawsuit claims Odysseus Marketing includes secret spyware and adware with its P2P downloads. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Ben Elgin |
The Plot To Hijack Your Computer Direct Revenue's swift rise illustrates the intertwining of spyware and mainstream online marketing. |
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 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
August 5, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Will Lawsuit Hurt Express Scripts? Although investors seem to be over the initial jitters arising from Express Scripts' problems, the stock is still down more than 12% since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit accusing the pharmacy benefits manager of fraud. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Ben Elgin |
The Case Against Direct Revenue Patrick Jordan made it his business to learn whether "adware-free" software really is pop-up-free, paving the way for law enforcers. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2007
Roy Mark |
A Charming Third Time For Anti-Spyware Bill? House panel backs Spy Act again despite two rejections from Senate. H.R. 964 would require an opt-in, notice and consent regime for adware or spyware that collects personally identifiable information from consumers. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2006
David Miller |
N.Y. AG Takes on Privacy Fight With Gratis New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against Web site operator Gratis Internet over personal information. |
InternetNews
December 5, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Washington Settles First Spyware Suit The Attorney General's office for the state of Washgington has its first notch under a new law designed to punish spyware makers and, in this case, make them pay. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges. |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Ben Elgin |
A Software Hall of Mirrors Dubious practices inflate the number of customers that spyware companies are generating for advertisers. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 25, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Takes Legal Aim Against Spyware Microsoft is taking legal action against one such company alleging that Secure Computer LLC, used deceptive pop-up ads to warn users that their computers were at risk and could contain spyware. |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Melissa Campanelli |
A Pop-Up Victory Competitors' ads could muscle in on your Web site. |
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... |
InternetNews
March 20, 2006
Roy Mark |
Big Ads Add to Adware, Spyware Major Internet advertisers are financing - sometimes unwittingly - the spread of potentially harmful adware and spyware, according to a new Center for Democracy and Technology finger pointing report. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Called Spyware Pusher in Lawsuit Anti-spyware activist Bed Edelman is leading a new round of charges that search and portal player Yahoo deployed clickfraud with the help of spyware in its dealings with Web advertising clients. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2006
Roy Mark |
Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers. |
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
January 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
FTC Wins Round Against 'Spyware' King Deal with trade commission prevents Sanford Wallace from distributing or publishing spyware code until federal case is settled. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 26, 2006 |
Beware of 'Badware' Academic organizations' watchlist spotlights four examples of malicious software. |
InternetNews
November 22, 2006
Roy Mark |
Spyware Operators Settles With FTC Two notorious spyware operators settled charges Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission. |
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 Magazine
May 31, 2006
Robert Lemos |
A Future Without Adware? Prosecutors and consumer advocates are on the attack against adware. Is a future without deceptive ad software attainable? |
InternetNews
January 22, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Sues 'Spam King' MySpace's CAN-SPAM lawsuit puts Scott Richter back in the news. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Bad Ads at Microsoft? Hopefully rumors of Microsoft's interest in an adware company are just rumors. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft, Wash. State Sue Over 'Scareware' Those annoying pop-up ads are the target of a flurry of new lawsuits by the state's Attorney General and Microsoft. |
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. |
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 World
March 2002
Scott Spanbauer |
Get That Spyware Off My Computer! Prevent spyware from installing on your PC, remove spyware already installed, and switch browsers at will... |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Spitzer Hints Scandal Is Winding Down While Spitzer remains tight-lipped on the status of the industrywide trading investigation he launched in September 2003, he hinted that it is perhaps nearing the finish line. |
Salon.com
April 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Spyware vs. anti-spyware The author of Ad-Aware, a program that removes sneaky software, explains what happened when his own program was zapped by the enemy... |
InternetNews
December 16, 2004
Roy Mark |
Microsoft Takes Giant Step Against Spyware Redmond acquires anti-spyware software maker and plans free beta version within a month. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2004
Rich Smith |
Jos. A. Bank's (Law) Suit New York's attorney general orders the company to change its advertising strategy. Does this mean anything to investors? |
InternetNews
May 27, 2004
Roy Mark |
Yahoo! Beta Testing Anti-Spyware Tool New toolbar plug-in aims to give consumers 'transparency' about what programs are actually on a user's computer. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senate Proposal Toughens Net Neutrality CompTIA backs House 'non net neutrality' bill... Lucent-Alcatel deals draws Washington yawns... Spitzer continues online antifraud campaign... etc. |
