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Blue-chip companies are sponsoring more than TV shows and golf tournaments to promote their products: They are inadvertently underwriting computer spyware too.

Larry Ingram found that out last month after spyware infested computers owned by Minnesota's Hennepin County. The uninvited software spewed ads for such companies as car maker Mercedes-Benz and online travel agency Travelocity.com.

Source/full story: latimes.com/business/la-fi-sponsor9may09.story
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Quite honestly, I'm not sure that all the companies that "unwittingly sponsor spyware" are 100% completely innocent but then again that's my opinion.
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