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]

The adware firm is no longer listed in Google and Yahoo!'s search results because of charges of 'cloaking.'

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.

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.

"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]

Yahoo and Google disabled links to WhenU for "cloaking" to dupe search engines into favorably listing decoy Web pages.[ZDNet]

Slashdot discussion forum takes up issues surrounding this news.

According to Symantec WhenU is usually installed when one installs other software, or when one visits some websites and it can update itself without informing the user.

A Federal Court in Virginia held that WhenU's pop-up ad didn't infringe U-Haul's trademarks and copyrights.

A federal judge refused to grant Wells Fargo's request to shut down the desktop advertising service. [ClickZ News]

Author presents detailed evidence to show that WhenU sends bogus search results to search engines, in violation of search engines' rules.

WhenU's press release about its legal victory against Wells Fargo where the Court found that it engaged in "legitimate comparative advertising."

Gives example of how affiliate commissions are lost as web site visitors are encouraged to click on their popup offers.