By now, most of us have the read the reports that Claria (formerly Gator), a well-known and much-maligned advertiser and behavioural-marketing firm, have decided to ditch the adware business, liquidating their adware technology and focusing on PersonalWeb, an application that monitors the behaviour of a PC/Web user and customizes his or her browser’s homepage. If you […]

You may have noticed that there was no MarketWatch last week due to technical issues.  This week’s is a bit longer as it incorporates news from last week as well as this week.  JG Spyware/Malware/Phishing/Virus/etc: Internet miscreants have created a spam-sending Trojan that comes fitted with an anti-virus scanner. The SpamThru Trojan attempts to reserve control of […]