Advertisers may face public humiliation from FTC over adware

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Advertisers may face public humiliation from FTC over adware

02-11-2006, 09:45 AM,

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Advertisers may face public humiliation from FTC over adware

[quote]Companies could find themselves put up for public humiliation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission if they continue to advertise through insidious ad-serving software.

Such a move might help in the battle against adware, FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz said Thursday at an event here hosted by the Anti-Spyware Coalition. Adware is software that displays pop-up ads on PCs, often after Internet searches...

"The dissemination of harmful, unremovable programs that frustrate consumers' ability to control their own computers is digital carjacking, and we intend to vigorously prosecute it," quote]

full article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-60376...d.newsfeed

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