Yahoo! China is sued for

A Chinese software team sued Yahoo! China accuses the company of secretly installing programs on users' systems.

Anti-Hooligan Software Federation yesterday submitted the case to the court of Haidan district (Beijing) accusing Yahoo! China illegally earned $ 25 million from the above behavior.

The software group said Yahoo! China often stealthily installs a software like Yahoo! Assitant on the user system without notifying them. While these are software that contains a lot of pop-up-style advertisements that bring a huge profit to the world's leading Internet search provider.

Anti-Hooligan Software Federation requires Yahoo! China must compensate for the losses mentioned above an amount of . 11.7 USD.

Yahoo! China said that since September 2005 the company has stopped automatically installing additional software on the user system, instead users will be asked whether to accept the installation.

Not only Yahoo! China and others like Ebay.com and Baidu.com may also be sued by Anti-Hooligan Software Federation because of the same behavior.

Holigan software is unwanted adware, spyware or software that steals personal information.