WhenU Enters the Anti-Spyware Market

charlesvar · 2004/10/30

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11723816~mode=flat

Bad news for the anti-spyware industry - all sorts of fallout from this:

You might have heard about the recent arrangement between Aluria (makers of Spyware Eliminator, a version of which is bundled with AOL 9.0) and WhenU, one of the more well-known distributors of adware. See here for the press release:

»www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?..

Aluria agreed to de-list WhenU from the defintions it uses for Spyware Eliminator. Suzi at Spyware Warrior has blogged about this:

»www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

And there's a news story on the same subject here at DSLR/BBR:

»It's Adware, Not Spyware!

But I just discovered that the situation is much worse than I originally thought. What we have here is more than a case of a little mutual back scratching with cross-promotion and links. See:

»www.whenu.com/whenu_solution.html

From that page:

said by WhenU:

WhenU is committed to protecting consumers' privacy and consumer PCs against dangerous spyware. This is why WhenU has teamed up with Aluria Software, a leading provider of anti-spyware tools, to provide WhenU consumers with UControl.

UControl is the first product in the online advertising industry that provides a comprehensive scan of your computer and removes unwanted spyware programs, while continuing to provide the deals, offers and value consumers have come to expect from WhenU contextual products.

See also:

Anti-Spyware Portal »www.whenu.com/take_control.html

Free Scan »www.whenu.com/scan_pc.html

In other words, WhenU is now in the anti-spyware business now with Aluria. And a major anti-spyware vendor has now agreed to de-list an adware vendor and start working the same vendor to market its anti-spyware product.

I am stunned and amazed.

Eric L. Howes
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Further posts in the tread spell out the negative effects on the industry.

Regards - Charles

Newt · 2004/10/30

Thanks for posting the info. Yuck, but better to know than not.

One more reason for suggesting any AOL users become ex-AOL users?

noahdfear · 2004/10/30

Good info Charles. Thanks, for giving us all another reason NOT to use Spyware Eliminator.

TonyT · 2004/10/31

All in all a very ingenious method by WhenU for eliminating the competition from users' computers!

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