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guest - June 16th, 2009 11:10 AM

I heard some people claim that McAFee, who sells adware programs,
unknowingly advertised their adware product by means of a pop-up that
had an adware program embedded in it. Is this true?

guest - June 16th, 2009 11:24 AM

This is unfortunately true. The problem for McAFee is they didn't even know it was happening. The mishap was discovered by the research team at Aluria
Software, a company owned by Earthlink.  It seems a pop-up advertisement for its anti-spyware software was distributed through a network that contained an adware program. [br][br]The actual pop-up happened to be a part of a campaign that was started by Direct Revenue LLC. Direct Revenue provides adware that installs itself and displays a pop-up ad on a user's computer. The ad itself promoted a security program against spyware. [br][br]The particular ad in question was distributed with Kazaa. It also comes with a movie viewing software called "I Watch Now." You can also get it by downloading screensavers and online games. [br][br]McAFee is attempting to fix the problem as soon as they can track down where the ad originated from. [br][br]

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