7/1/2005
Microsoft Making A Play For Claria?
Rumored Microsoft Adware Deal Raises Red Flags
Clara makes the Gator adserving spyware software. It is one of the particularly nasty versions of adware. Hate it, removed it dozens of times from client’s boxes.
Claria’s adware applications include eWallet, DateManager, WeatherScope and PrecisionTime, and the company’s behavior-tracking database of users’ surfing habits is believed to be among the biggest in the world.
Maybe their database and tracking software will give Microsoft a jump on Google, Yahoo and Amazon’s user databases, but it kind of seems to me like buying stolen property, rewarding the criminal for their acts.
Surely they’ll shutdown the disbursement branch and only use their intellectual property (db and tracking software).
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August 2nd, 2005 at 10:30 am
BetaNews | Claria Works to Change Adware Image
BetaNews | Claria Works to Change Adware Image
Also, in early July a researcher discovered that Claria’s classification within Microsoft’s Windows AntiSpyware had been changed, further fueling speculation. Eric Howes at Spyware Warrior discovered …