CDT Report Identifies Large Corporate Adware Funders - Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful "adware" by paying for advertisements generated by those programs, a new report by CDT finds. In "Following the Money: How Advertising Dollars Encourage Nuisance and Harmful Adware and What Can be Done to Reverse the Trend," CDT details how -- through a complicated network of intermediaries -- major advertisers pay to have their products and services advertised though pop-ups and other ads generated by unwanted advertising software or "adware." (Note: After the initial publication of this report, four of the advertisers named in the document -- Waterfront Media, PeoplePC, LetsTalk.com and GreetingCards.com -- contacted CDT to clarify their adware policies and practices. The current version of the report reflects those updates). March 20, 2006
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