Crackdown On Sneaky Malware Firms Continues
from the shut-'em-down dept
It seems that the crackdown on adware/malware firms with sneaky installs is continuing pretty rapidly these days. Just after the FTC convinced Zango to pay up (though there are still questions about whether or not the company is abiding by the agreement), a district court has sided with the FTC in demanding that sneaky adware firm ERG and one of its affiliates cease distributing its software. Like so many of these applications, it worked by convincing people to download screensavers or videos, but included malware/spyware/adware in the bundle without making it clear to users or making it easy to remove. Of course, as we've seen before, it's one thing to demand that these firms stop -- it's another if they actually obey.
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small steps, at the very least. anything to start chipping away at these interwoven and basicly evil companies.
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To Sean
This is a blog post not a 2,000+ word essay...
You made some fine points however, it all gets lost somewhere after the first page or so :/
P.S. wasn't the topic Malware: C&D?
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How can the story be spam? You went to this site and read the story of your own free will. This is the exact opposite of spam, which comes to you and is unwanted.
If the stories here are spam, to you, just "change the channel" !
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It can be done...
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J J
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that wouldn't help a damn thing
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