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WhenU Wins Another Legal Victory in Fight for Consumer Desktop Freedom  - http://www.whenu.com/press_release_03_11_19.html  WhenU's press release about its legal victory against Wells Fargo where the Court found that it engaged in "legitimate comparative advertising."  Methods and Effects of Spyware - WhenU Violating Own Privacy Policy [pdf file]  - 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.  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.  WhenU Can Keep On Popping Up  - http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3111501  A federal judge refused to grant Wells Fargo's request to shut down the desktop advertising service. [ClickZ News]  Pop-up Seller Loses Round in Court  - http://news.com.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]  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.  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.  Adware Maker Challenges Utah Anti-Spyware Law  - http://news.com.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]  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.  Search Engines Delete Adware Company WhenU  - http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5212479.html  Yahoo and Google disabled links to WhenU for "cloaking" to dupe search engines into favorably listing decoy Web pages.[ZDNet]  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.  Clickz - WhenU Banished By Google, Yahoo!  - http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3354171  The adware firm is no longer listed in Google and Yahoo!'s search results because of charges of 'cloaking.'