My Way (web portal)

My Way (web portal)

My Way is a web portal offering a number of news, shopping, e-mail and web services. The web portal also distributes MyWay Searchbar, a spyware service that comes preinstalled on some Dell [Righi, Michael, "Dell Charges $49 to Remove Their Own Spyware", http://www.michaelrighi.com/2005/07/21/dell-spyware-my-way, July 21, 2005] [Dotson, Anthony, "Ethics and "Spyware"", Sandusky Computers, http://sanduskycomputers.com/editorials/spywareethics.php, June 28, 2006 ] and HP computers [LS CalamityJane, "HELP! My computer is infected! What should I do?", Lavasoft Support Forums, http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t3403.html, September 20, 2006, 02:57 PM] . It is also distributed with Kazaa, a program owned by Sharman Networks, with whom My Way's company shares revenue.cite news
url=http://mailit.myway.com/mail_form.jsp
title=My Way Speedbar Distribution Partnerships ] It manifests itself as a searchbar and pop-up blocker. [Martin, Melissa, "MyWay Speedbar", Scumware, http://www.scumware.com/apps/scumware.php/action::view_article/article_id::1063294991/topic::Scumware,-Spyware,-Adware-&-Malware-Applications,September 11, 2003]

The MyWay portal was prominently featured as the portal of choice on the Drudge Report for most AP articles until 2007, when he instead switched to Andrew Breitbart's "breitbart.com" portal.

Ownership

My Way is owned by IAC Search & Media, owner of Ask.com [IAC Search & Media, "Ask Jeeves Closes Acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings", http://www.irconnect.com/askj/pages/news_releases.html?d=57155, May 6, 2004] .

ee also

*MyWay Searchbar
*Spyware
*Web portal

References

External links

* [http://www.myway.com Myway.com] Official site


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