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iWon is an Internet portal and search engine that offers users the chance to win money by earning entries in a sweepstakes. Entries are earned by performing the normal tasks performed on the Internet such as using search engines, checking stock quotes, reading email, and keeping up to date on the news. Among major early backers of iWon was Viacom, parent of CBS and MTV. It is now owned by Barry Diller's InterActive Corporation, parent of the Home Shopping Network, Ask.com, Evite, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, and until recently, travel sites such as Expedia and Hotels.com. As of March 9, 2006, iWon claimed on its site that it had given away more than $65,667,000 in prizes to more than 268,907 winners. When Excite@Home went bankrupt in 2001, iWon decided to buy Excite. They designed a new Excite website and on December 16, 2001, the new Excite was launched. Numerous iWon users have reported problems logging to their iWon accounts. Although not documented, all passwords entered by users are automatically lowercased by server software, thus requiring users to subsequently enter their passwords in all lowercase, regardless of the capitalization they created their password with.
Spyware conflicts with iWon.com Some spyware/malware detection programs attempt to limit access to iWon.com because of a program called "Aornum" that was installed for a short time by iWon users with other iWon applications. * | ||||||||
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