Thursday, April 6, 2006

Another spyware firm in the crosshairs

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Tuesday he <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6057543.html?tag=zdnn.alert">has sued Direct Revenue,</A> charging the Internet marketer with secretly installing millions of spyware programs that sent unsolicited advertisements to users' computers. Spitzer said in a statement that Direct Revenue secretly bundled spyware into offers for free games or other applications. The software tracked users' Internet habits and caused pop-up ads to appear, he said.

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