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It appears another article called "Friend or Foe" has also been terminated. Google supplies a cache for you to read.
Of interesting note is the underlying security focus both companies take, and unfortunately, Aluria has forced their way using legal tactics against another security company ensuring censorship. At the same time, Aluria has started offering "free" spyware cleaning services over the phone to clean out the spyware baddies. However, let us not forget Aluria's recent partnership with WhenU.
Legendary spyware crime investigators Ben Edelman and Eric Howes have just recently discovered a major exploit that is underway. Ben reports his most recent findings and provides a video of the installations. Eric goes on to include which companies use this exploit, and wouldn't you know, WhenU falls into that filth. So it continues that the anti-spyware brigade shows the public that WhenU and others who may claim to be "spyware safe sites and programs" are not what they appear to be. This continues to bring questions as to Aluria's authenticity of the program "spyware safe". The data that folks like Ben, Eric, and Andrew Clover provide, and news agencies such as the Boston Globe, eWeek, Slashdot, and the now defunct articles from SpywareGuide provide are the basis for the articles here at CastleCops. Without their work and expertise, these articles would not exist. And their work is being done, because companies like WhenU apparently do not subscribe in practice, to what they preach.
Thanks to legendary work by PCPitStop, we can see that most users on the web aren't even aware WhenU is on their systems. Read PCPitStop's response to WhenU at the FTC website.
A reader who wishes to have their name unknown at the moment, dissected an archived copy of Aluria's privacy policy available here. AdwareReport's comment (Spyware Guide quoted in Bold, AdwareReport quoted in Italic):
ALURIA believes in permission-based marketing. By using our website and/or purchasing any products and services marketed by ALURIA, you expressly consent to the terms of this policy."
The above text does not appear anywhere in Aluria's privacy policy.
SpywareGuide correctly continued to quote Aluria's privacy policy:
The personal profile information that you submit to ALURIA and its Advertisers remains your property, but by submitting that information to ALURIA, you grant ALURIA the right to use that information for marketing purposes including, but not limited to, sharing such information via co-registration with Advertisers.
AdwareReport states this is incorrect and does not exist in Aluria's privacy policy. Go ahead, click the Web Archive link above, you'll see this same "incorrect quote" actually did exist. And here it is, word for word:
The personal profile information that you submit to ALURIA and its Advertisers remains your property, but by submitting that information to ALURIA, you grant ALURIA the right to use that information for marketing purposes including, but not limited to, sharing such information via co-registration with Advertisers.
Adware Report has it wrong, and Spyware Guide was correct. The link above thanks to Web Archive clearly shows in the first paragraph of Aluria's Privacy Policy, that the statement did in fact exist. Compare the Web Archive to the statements made at Adware Report and the Google Cache of Spyware Guide. With this evidence that our anonymous reader presents, Spyware Guide has every right to bring back their now defunct articles.
Note: Updated with new evidence, showing SpywareGuide was correct about Aluria.
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