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PersonalWeb 1 (Windows)

PersonalWeb learns your interests by collecting data from your various Web browsers about how you use the Web, and also identifies some of your computer settings and software applications. PersonalWeb then finds content to match your interests by analyzing Web sites, search results and other sources of information to identify...

Tags: Home Page, Claria Corp., PersonalWeb, Productivity, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-08-09

Claria Demonstrates the Power of Spin

Claria Demonstrates the Power of SpinClaria, a model company .. ROFLWhat is next? CWS as one of the best search engines or OJ Simpson as the model husband... guy's Claria is just a wolf in sheep clothing. I will never trust them. AO has made it self invalid...

Tags: Claria Corp., AlwaysOn

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Claria Demonstrates the Power of Spin

Claria has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Private Companies of 2006 by AlwaysOn. Just as a reminder: Claria is the organization that brought us Gator, the surreptitious program that installed through Kazaa and screen saver downloads. Gator was most people's introduction to spyware as it tracked your...

Tags: Claria Corp., AlwaysOn

Blog posts 2006-07-13

Claria wants you to uninstall their software

Claria wants you to uninstall their softwareGood riddence to GAINI often remove spyware and adware from people's machines and GAIN in just one of a very large number of culprits. I'm glad to see them gone.-htorwww.jjroth.comMeh, Claria is not the worst of it...Suzi, now if we could just get ZDNet...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Tools & Techniques, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Claria Corp., software

Discussion threads 2006-06-24

Claria wants you to uninstall their software

Claria, formerly known as Gator, issued a statement on their website stating that all GAIN software will stop displaying pop up ads on July 1, 2006. That sounds like a good thing, yes? Claria will cease supporting all GAIN supported applications on October 1, 2006. They say the software may...

Tags: Gain, Claria Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-23

Claria to exit adware business

Claria to exit adware businessThis is wonderful news, want my credit card?So now they're turning into 'good guys' who only have our best interests at heart? How niiiice. Would you like my credit card details?I will never use/trust anything from these lying thieves!I would never use a search engine provided...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Claria Corp., adware, adware business

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

US adware business is doomed

The one thing that can be said for Claria's announcement yesterday is that it displaces the work of 180Solutions as the most imaginative use of the Press Release to mislead. As Suzi Turner pointed out , Claria, the ones who brought us sappy screen savors bundled with...

Tags: adware

Blog posts 2006-03-22

Claria quits adware

Claria quits adwareLet Bill buy the adware... and deep six that shit! He now gives to charity right? Well this could be his biggest benevolent contribution to mankind ... plus it would count as a tax writeoff right? Bill, what do you say? ;)SkepticalI would wait...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Claria Corp., PersonalWeb, adware

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

Claria quits adware

Claria announced today that the company will be out of the adware business by the end of the second quarter. In April Claria will launch the beta version of PersonalWebSM, a "next generation platform designed to provide consumers with a highly personalized Internet experience." I don't have any details on...

Tags: adware, Claria Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-21

Claria doesn't want you to know they do pop-ups

Claria doesn't want you to know they do pop-upsZoneAlarm blocks it wellBut it is a pain when you first install, you have to allow the initial connection access to the internet or the install hangs - but blocking after that prevents any pop-ups altogether.Quality JournalismIt's funny that quoting a write-up...

Tags: Blogging, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Claria Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-16

Claria doesn't want you to know they do pop-ups

Everyone remembers the infamous Gator pop-ups, right? The company was even targeted with lawsuits over their use of pop-ups. Now Gator is Claria and they still do pop-ups, but apparently they don't want you to know that fact before you download their software. Nearly a year ago, spyware/adware expert Ben...

Tags: Claria Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-15

Eulas revisited and why you should read them

Techdirt says "If You Read The EULA, You'd Never Agree To It", and links to a discussion at Slashdot about another article on EULAs. Note, I previously blogged about EULAs and two new tools that help make sense out of the nonsense found in many EULAs. TG Daily posts about...

Tags: EULA

Blog posts 2005-10-24

Adware maker Claria steps into search

Adware maker Claria steps into searchI like this:"Claria plans to use its intimate knowledge of those users' search behavior ..."Betcha didn't know that cockroaches could be so warm and fuzzy.clariaI do not trust ClariaMakers of popupsAny company that makes pop up adds i.e. Gator !!I will have nothing to do...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, adware, Claria Corp., malware, Gator, malware program

Discussion threads 2005-07-13

Microsoft-Claria Talks *were* Happening

Thanks to Ben Edelman for tipping me off to this article over at CliZstat. According to their sources their were indeed talks between MSFT and Claria that are not broken off because of fear of PR fallout. Good move MSFT. But really, what were you thinking? Are...

Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Claria Corp.

Blog posts 2005-07-12

Spyware versus virus

Spyware versus virusMicrosoft can refute it all they want...But they are wrong.I had a co-worker test it. At one version of the defs, it tags claria for removal.At the latest version of the defs it tags it for ignore.It's plain and simple. Claria has influenced Microsoft. The...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, def, spyware, virus, Claria Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-12

Weighing in on the Microsoft-Claria issue

There is some pretty heated reaction to both the rumors of Microsoft acquiring Claria, and Microsoft changing it's AntiSpyware product to suggest that users "Ignore" (in other words, "Keep") Claria products instead of "Remove". I have been reticent to chime in other than my comments about how crazy it would...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Claria Corp.

Blog posts 2005-07-11

Microsoft denies its antispyware favors Claria

Microsoft denies its antispyware favors ClariaMicrosoft is an unbiased software provider...Doug Barney, Editor in Chief of Redmond Magazine is here with my rep this morning. Over a very formal and elegant breakfast, Mr. Barney and I constantly praised Microsoft's antispyware product as being the most robust and refined on the...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft OS, Microsost, Microsoft Corp., anti-spyware, Claria Corp., Barney

Discussion threads 2005-07-11

Microsoft learns to live with open source

Microsoft learns to live with open sourceYeah, sure, you bet 'yahttp://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050710090359785Microsoft learns to live with open sourceLearn to live with it? They've been learning to live with it for a while now. All the worthy open source applications have been available for Windows for some time. But as...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsuck, denial, open source, Microsoft Corp., Claria Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2005-07-11

Microsoft should buy Claria

Microsoft should buy ClariaMS cuts their own throatsThey've already started lowering the default threat level of Claria in their anti-spyware software. I'm surprised MS would do something so stupid as to align themselves with one of the worlds biggest spyware companies. It's not like MS needs any more...

Tags: Corporate law, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Claria Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-06

Most popular adware apps: Claria, CoolWWW

Wall Street Journal quotes the results of a WebRoot study regarding the most common adware applications installed on users' PC. Claria, CoolWWW, AltNet and 180SearchAssistant have been the most common adware apps, with AltNet and 180SearchAssiatant trading places in Q4 2004 and Q1 2005.

Tags: adware, CoolWWW

Blog posts 2005-07-06