Incredible -- C-NetMedia still continues its grossly deceptive practices

It was last week, on the 14^th, that Ben Edelman showed that C-NetMedia (not to be confused with CNET) was using highly deceptive advertising to lure people to its sites.

It�s still going on, despite press on the matter.

This morning, a search for SpyBot again shows C-NetMedia trying to trick people into thinking their site (spywarebot.com) is Spybot�s:

It�s just as bad on Yahoo, which skews toward a demographic that is arguably not as computer savvy as Google�s (providing a potentially better opportunity for deception).

And a search for Ad-Aware still has their ad for adwarealert.com. HIGHLY deceptive.

(And we all know that many people will click on the first result, not fully understanding that it�s a sponsored link.)

Then, look what these crooks are doing with Microsoft Antispyware (antispyware.com):

And that site, incidentally, sure looks like Microsoft�s site, as Ben Edelman pointed out:

(Image credit: Ben Edelman)

I�m sure there�s more, this is all I have time for right now.

I�m afraid it�s going to take the FTC to handle this one. Apparently the search engines aren�t self-policing on this one.

Alex Eckelberry