Researcher exposes Google spyware connections (program, security, blogs, http)

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"A prominent anti-spyware researcher is calling on Google to sever its ties with an advertising partner that covers popular sites with pop-up PPC advertisements promoting those same sites.
According to Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and a staunch anti-spyware advocate, Google is charging advertisers for what he described as “conversion-inflation” traffic from the WhenU spyware program."

Researcher exposes Google spyware connections | Zero Day | ZDNet.com