Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Anti-spyware Company Accused of Deception

InformationWeek reports that a Harvard professor accuses C-NetMedia of using deceptive marketing and an inefficient product to dupe users into buying its product. The professor, Ben Edelman, says the company name is very similar to CNET Networks and also has similarities to other companies that make it seem as if it is part of other companies, including Spybot S&D.

Edelman anticipates that C-NetMedia will place blame on affiliates that market its products although the professor says that the company also has logos that assimilate an association with Windows through design similarities.

Dallas computer repair has seen a big increase in the amount of either deceptive anti-spyware on customer's computers or anti-spyware that is just not worth taking the time to install such useless malware programs.

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