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Sex loses the adware battle
Celebrity 'news' sites have taken over the lead from online porn has the web's major breeding space for adware and spyware, according to a new report by McAfee.
Badware is increasingly blurring the line between legitimate and shady software applications, the security vendor found. The online pests are signing up for affiliate programmes with regular sites and thereby and thereby create an illusion of legitimacy.
To add to the overall confusion, the adware industry is putting up front companies and fake websites, all for the sake of putting up an impenetrable smoke screen.
Legal assaults against the adware makers don't seem to have gotten us anywhere. The only real solution is to take battle it at the source: boycott companies that buy advertising from adware companies. Vonage, are you listening?
technorati tags: vonage, spyware, adware, mcafee
September 11, 2006 at 11:57 PM | Permalink
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