-=PCTechTalk=- Spyware reports errors wothout scanning your machine
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:37:26 -0600
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000567.html
"The Federal Trade Commission has shut down MaxTheater,
Inc., alleging the company participated in fraudulent practices with its
Spyware Assassin site, which purportedly scanned user machines for
spyware and reported infections, even though no scan was done and in most
cases, the user machine was clean. The site then offered the user a $30
product to remove the spyware, which the commission reports 'didn't do a
thing.'"
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FTC Takes Down Fraudulent Anti-Spyware Company
Posted by Andrew Brandt
Friday, March 11, 2005, 05:22 PM (PST)
Chalk one up for the good guys. The FTC today announced that it's filed a
restraining order against a company that allegedly offered Internet users a
spyware scanner program that falsely reported that computers were infected
with spyware, and which failed to remove any spyware at all from infected
machines.
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