Through its Overture pay per click search division, Yahoo has been found facilitating fraudulent click activity generated by known spyware makers including 180solutions, Intermix, and Direct Revenue. A study released earlier today, The Spyware – Click-Fraud Connection – and Yahoo’s Role Revisited, (Apr. 4, 06), shows how at least a dozen different spyware firms redirect Internet users searches through their servers, inserting Overture ad links on unrelated websites or with pop-ups triggered by those sites. Read more…

Having failed miserably to come up with a funny but obvious April Fool’s Day prank to post to the StepForth Blog today, we decided to err towards the informative.

Today’s edition of Wired News opens with the 10 Best Internet Spoofs, as selected by Drew Curtis of Fark.com.

Happy April Fool’s Day friends.