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pmcnamara
News Editor

A look inside the adware machine

Opinion
Apr 14, 20061 min
Data Center

Want to know why there’s so much adware popping up on your organization’s PCs? BusinessWeek Online has the ugly details today … and they don’t reflect well on brand-name companies such as AT&T, eBay, Yahoo and Vonage, even though these big shots could be considered victims as well as accomplices.

Meanwhile, my Network World colleague Ellen Messmer recently wrote of one adware purveyor’s pledge to clean up its act and go straight.

pmcnamara
News Editor

In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.