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p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- As regular readers will know, McAfee owes me what by now must be a pretty substantial amount of money for using p2pnet in its online advertising without my permission.

It’s been doing that for years.

Now, “Facebook has decided that it doesn’t want to be the example that security experts drag out when they talk about malware spreading on social networks,” says Ars Technica, going on:

“That’s why the company hopes to keep its users clean and malware-free with a new partnership.”

Good luck with that.

The Big Red X

“When we tested this site [p2pnet] we found links to antispyware.com, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs,” it (still) says.

Antispyware was once, but is no more, an advertiser, and it had nothing to do with spyware.

Not only but also, on the page where it cites p2pnet with a BIG RED X under Online affiliations for p2pnet.net (all in bold red) are

• Antispyware.com (still)
• Xinhua.net
• tvunetworks

Companies picked out in in red are, of course,  highly suspect. But the  algorithms / searchbots McAfee uses to compile their ‘evidence’ are as useless as the findings.

As I said earlier, Antispyware is a perfectly legitimate company which is all too often confused with another that’s definitely dodgy.

Xinhua is the China state news service mentioned countless times in various p2pnet posts.

tvunetworks was included once not as any kind of promotion, but as a reference in a 2008 article slugged Radical UK Net censorship plan, new libel laws.

McAfee? pfffft

Now we learn it’s teamed up with Fa$ebook, creating an unsavoury duo if ever there was one.

It could get interesting if p2pnet’s experience is anything to go by.

And on that, can’t I sue this much vaunted (by itself) security company for long-term and ongoing defamation?

Not according to a well-known US professor of law who specialises in this kind of thing.

(Cheers, DA)

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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using p2pnet in its online advertising – p2pnet to McAfee: Pay us what you owe!,March 29, 2009
definitely dodgy – AntiSpyware vs AntiSpyware XP, January 12, 2009
Ars Technica – Facebook working to keep network, users free of malware, January 13, 2010

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