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Adware Maker Challenges Utah Anti-Spyware Law - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5190880.html
In its legal motion WhenU is charging that Utah's recently enacted Spyware Control Act violates free-speech guarantees and could unfairly harm its business. [CNET]

Clickz - WhenU Banished By Google, Yahoo! - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3354171
The adware firm is no longer listed in Google and Yahoo!'s search results because of charges of 'cloaking.'

EFF: Trademark Law Shouldn't Prejudice Internet Ads - http://www.eff.org/IP/TM/20040219_eff_pr.php
EFF is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court decision involving WhenU's right to provide online advertisements during web browsing. Online contact lens distributor 1-800 Contacts won that decision.

Methods and Effects of Spyware - WhenU Violating Own Privacy Policy - http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ftc-031904.pdf
Comment submitted to recent FTC hearings about spyware, alleging that WhenU software violates its own privacy policy by transmitting some of user-visited web page URLs to its own servers.

Pop-up Seller Loses Round in Court - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5135313.html
"A U.S. district court judge bars WhenU from delivering pop-up ads to some Net visitors, going against decisions in favor of the software maker's controversial marketing tactics." [CNET News]

Search Engines Delete Adware Company WhenU - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5212479.html
Yahoo and Google disabled links to WhenU for "cloaking" to dupe search engines into favorably listing decoy Web pages.[ZDNet]

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over Anti-Spyware Law - http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/04/13/1750259.shtml?tid=123&tid=158&tid=99
Slashdot discussion forum takes up issues surrounding this news.

U-Haul v. WhenU.com, 2003 WL 22071556 (E.D.Va. 2003) - http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/U-HaulVWhenU(DVa2003).htm
A Federal Court in Virginia held that WhenU's pop-up ad didn't infringe U-Haul's trademarks and copyrights.

WhenU Can Keep On Popping Up - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3111501
A federal judge refused to grant Wells Fargo's request to shut down the desktop advertising service. [ClickZ News]

WhenU Spams Google, Breaks Google "No Cloaking" Rules - http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/whenu-spam/
Author presents detailed evidence to show that WhenU sends bogus search results to search engines, in violation of search engines' rules.

Whenu.com SaveNow, Enemy of Affiliate Program Members - http://www.thiefware.com/whenu/
Gives example of how affiliate commissions are lost as web site visitors are encouraged to click on their popup offers.

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