As many of you no doubt have heard, Yahoo! recently released a new toolbar which they claim detects and removes spyware. The toolbar uses technology licensed from Pest Patrol, the vendor of a popular antispyware product.
Unfortunately, it turns out that Yahoo! has decided to set the toolbar to ignore all so-called "adware". The toolbar forces the user specifically to set it to seek out adware.
The reason for this decision appears to be the business relationship between Overture, which is owned entirely by Yahoo!, and the Claria corporation, which creates and distributes Gator. As it turns out, Yahoo!, through Overture, provides 31% of Claria's entire annual revenue.
More: http://www.spywarein...hoo_toolbar.php
Yahoo playing both sides of the spyware issue
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Mike
, Jun 03 2004 03:35 AM
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Mike
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Posted 03 June 2004 - 03:35 AM
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Posted 03 June 2004 - 04:07 PM
Why am I not surprised!
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