Unethical software and practices have been called thiefware, scumware, spyware, adware and parasiteware.

One thing all terms have in common is that many Webmasters have a problem with the unethical software & practices. The ThiefWare forums have been removed due to a hacker exploit in the forum software. Some topics that were discussed included these discussions:

• Person Forced to Advertise with WhenU
• If Gator can get sued, WhenU could too
• Former eZula TopText advertiser reports poor ROI ad results
• PurityScan, how to uninstall it
• PurityScan, instructions for uninstalling this thiefware
• lop.com, thiefware to beware of
• Dialup thiefware application
• Thiefware advertising campaign
• Radlight scumware attacks Adaware by uninstalling Ad-Aware
• KaZaa installing thiefware, scumware, spyware, and networking software
• Ad-Aware removes thiefware (a.k.a. spyware, scumware)
• Spam accusation for lavasoftusa.com? (Ad-Aware's Web site)
• Registry Keys found by Ad-Aware
• Other useful software to remove thiefware, discussion on cookie removal
• This person thought their site was hacked, mention of Gator ads and software
• How has thiefware affected you? Post your comments. Pro-thiefware comments welcome.
• Google helps to expose thiefware (scumware)
• Detecting thiefware, trouble shooting to remove thiefware, spyware, scumware, and adware.
• Is Gator thiefware or not? Take the poll and vote.
• Gator Popunders and Popups: Web sites trick visitors into thinking destinations sites are advertising Gator
• ClickZ advertises Gator, Webmasters don't like controversial ads
• Gator sued by: L.L. Bean, Washington Post, New York Times, Dow Jones and other publishers
• Spam humor, Spam rewritten to poke fun at spam
• Scammer Gets Shut Down
• Nigerian scammer gets scammed!
• UPnP Security Problems for Windows XP (Universal Plug and Play security hole)
• PanIP (Pangea Intellectual Properties LLC) is sueing ecommerce Web sites over patent infringement

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