Researcher Ben Edelman cited a half-dozen examples of affiliate merchants being cheated by spyware, particularly by claiming commissions on organic traffic coming to those merchants.
Spyware Pops Drove Video Traffic
Several video-oriented websites received illicit boosts in their traffic from third-party ad popups that occurred on people’s PCs. Those machines had been infected by spyware, which powered those popups.
Yahoo Sued for Alleged Spyware Ties
If you think spyware advertising is brought to you by the fly-by-night universities and homeless real estate agencies that are featured in such programs, a class-action lawsuit before the U.S. District Court of New Jersey may change your mind.
Man Says Dell Charges To Remove Own Spyware
You may have heard of the Dell Computers spyware allegations involving My Way Search Assistant. But a story is making the rounds (posted on a blog from last July) that Dell charged a customer $49 to remove the unwanted program from his computer.
Yahoo Implicated In Spyware Click Fraud
Advertisers who expect their Overture ad campaigns to run with certain Yahoo Searches may be surprised to find their ads running in syndicated spyware applications that render each impression as an ad click the advertiser must pay.
Viruses & Spyware Don’t Taste Like Cookies
When I first started working with computers a little over ten years ago I had never heard about viruses.
Review: Automating Security Patches and Spyware Management
You may have heard of a company called Shavlik. They were recently named as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America.
FTC Busts BlogSpot Spyware Ring
The Federal Trade Commission has shut down three companies that tricked bloggers into placing code on their sites that delivered spyware to user machines.
Jeeves Asks For Spyware Delisting
MySearch Bar and other plugins by Ask Jeeves can arrive from third parties on a computer system without asking for permission first.
Ask Jeeves Getting Flagged As Spyware
Search engine Ask Jeeves appears to be having a world of problems with some of its software. Apparently, a number of anti-spyware firms have flagged Jeeves for some of the downloading techniques and distribution channels it chooses for its toolbars and other software.