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InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Janis Mara |
Judge Downs Pop-Ups in Contrary Decision Due to trademark infringement, a judge granted a preliminary injunction against adware company WhenU from displaying pop-up ads for Vision Direct when users visit the 1-800 Contacts website.   |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Ben Elgin |
Guess What -- You Asked For Those Pop-Up Ads Software lodged in your PC follows your Web wanderings and slings up relevant pitches. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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
August 10, 2004
Roy Mark |
FTC Settles with Pop-up Ad Operators Scheme involved exploiting Windows Messenger Service to barrage consumers with ads. |
New Architect
October 2002
Christopher Null |
Crocodile Tears Newspaper publishers take Gator to court for adding pop-up ads to their websites without their permission. |
InternetNews
May 19, 2004
Mara & Miller |
Lawsuit Filed Under Utah's Challenged Anti-Spyware Act A retailer files a lawsuit in Utah under that state's new anti-spyware statute, though the law is temporarily blocked by a court order. |
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 |
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
January 26, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
IE Pop-up Blocker Defaults to "Off" Silence the pop-up death knells. With the beta release of the service pack 2 update for IE, the news is there's no news. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2006
Clint Boulton |
FTC, AG Sue to Stuff Alleged Pop-up Scheme The Federal Trade Commission and the Washington state Attorney General have sued to halt an operation that barrages consumers with pop-up advertising and demands money to make the pop-ups cease. |
PC World
July 2004
Tom Spring |
Striking Back at Spyware States, feds consider regulating intrusive software. |
New Architect
February 2003
Amit Asaravala |
What Advertisers Want Selecting high-performance ad formats for your site |
InternetNews
December 29, 2003
Janis Mara |
Display Ads Back From the Dead Perceptions of a decline in online display ads may be misleading. |
PC World
June 14, 2002
Tom Spring |
Has Your Browser Been Hijacked Lately? Lop.com's drive-by download marketing tactics irk some surfers. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 19, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Lawsuit Filed Over Search & Gambling Ads Yahoo, Google and other major web sites have been hit with a lawsuit saying they carry online gambling ads in violation of California law. This comes after two of the major search companies earlier this year made moves that were supposed to remove online gambling ads entirely. |
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. |
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 World
April 2003
Tom Spring |
New Ad-aware Goes Pro Version 6 of the ad-busting software comes in paid editions that promise real-time protection. |
PC World
June 19, 2007
Stephen Manes |
Web Ads: A Cat-and-Mouse Game Overrun by ads? New software is better at exterminating them. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
AdBlock Plus Defers To External Review Board To Choose "Acceptable Ads" Allowing an independent board to review and choose acceptable ads should make the playing field fairer for advertisers. |
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. |
PC World
March 2002
Brad Grimes |
Yet Another Word From Our Sponsor The new, annoying, unavoidable world of online ads... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
January 14, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular keyword-based search results and ads has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community. Will Google follow suit? |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Ben Elgin |
For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up Yahoo! could do more to fix adware problems. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Catherine Seda |
Slam Dunk or Scam Junk? The truth about browser-based keyword advertising |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Advertisers On The Rise Of Ad Blockers: "We Lost Track Of The User Experience" Since Apple made its mobile operating system compatible with ad blockers, Internet publishers and other online content creators have fretted that their primary source of revenue could dry up. |
Entrepreneur
March 2006
Catherine Seda |
One Last Thing Want to annoy customers who visit your website? Use an entry pop-up. Want them to stay or come back later? Try a well-timed exit pop-up. |
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. |
PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
Larry Seltzer |
Bogus Security Warnings When a warning pops up unexpectedly as you're surfing, take your time before responding. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006
David Kiley |
Call It A Sell Phone Cell-phone users may balk at receiving video and advertising on their handsets, but advertisers are ready to spend. |
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. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Dan Tynan |
Watch Out for Online Ads That Watch You New Web ads respond to your activities and this has privacy advocates worried. |
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. |
