Spyware and adware comes quietly and uninvited to your e-mail. It is such an invasion of privacy and in general just annoying. If you are not aware that is on your computer, it stays (and stays), like an unwelcome guest who noses around in your closets and medicine cabinet. I think the worst are the pop-ups that don't allow you to read information until you click them away. Of course that's what they expect you to do--enter Mrs. Spyware and Mr. Adware.
I just read today that NY AG, Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against Intermix Media, Inc. for alleged use of spyware and adware. In turn, Intermix Media, Inc. has issued a statement concerning the suit. The item below appeared in MarketWatch.
Market Pulse: Intermix Media says it doesn't promote, condone spyware
Thursday April 28, 11:54 am ET
By Carolyn Pritchard
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Intermix Media Inc. on Thursday responded to being sued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for allegedly being the source of "spyware" and "adware" that has been secretly installed on millions of home computers by saying that it does not promote or condone spyware. "Many of the practices being challenged were instituted under prior leadership," the Los Angeles-based company said in a statement, and it has been "voluntarily and proactively improving these applications and related consumer disclosure and functionality for some time." Intermix ceased distribution of the applications at issue earlier this month, it said. The company said it expects to continue its discussions with the Attorney General's Office and still hopes to reach an appropriate and amicable resolution.
We will have to keep an eye on this issue since it affects all of us who use our computers daily.
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