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By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
26 Mar 2008 00:56
Washington state cracks down
The alleged supplier of some of the net’s most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state’s attorney general.
Ron Cooke, the owner of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Messenger Solutions, stands accused of violating Washington’s Computer Spyware Act and Consumer Protection Act for marketing programs that went under names including WinAntiVirus Pro 2007, System Doctor, WinAntiSpyware and Messenger Blocker.
According to a complaint filed Tuesday in Washington state court, the company caused some people surfing the net to receive a torrent of pop-ups that advertised porn links and other sketchy sites. The messages were sent through Windows Messenger Service, a feature in Windows that allows network administrators to send notices to users. (The service has been turned off by default since Microsoft pushed out Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, but evidently plenty of people still have it turned on for one reason or another.) [Read Entire Article at the Register]
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[...] I am SPY wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBy Dan Goodin in San Francisco 26 Mar 2008 00:56 Washington state cracks down The alleged supplier of some of the net’s most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state’s attorney general. Ron Cooke, the owner of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Messenger Solutions, stands accused of violating Washington’s Computer Spyware Act and Consumer Protection Act for marketing programs […] [...]