Washington State Sues Over Spam, Spyware
An AP newswire article by Gene Johnson, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The Washington state attorney general's office has sued a New York company and individuals in New York, New Hampshire, Oregon and India under state and federal anti-spam and spyware laws, saying they induced computer users to download software that weakened their computers' security.
The lead defendant in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, is Secure Computer LLC of White Plains, N.Y. The company's president, Paul E. Burke, who lives in the Bronx, and Gary T. Preston, of Jamaica, N.Y., have made more than $100,000 since summer 2004 selling software known as "spyware cleaner" over the Internet — software they advertised using mass, misleading e-mails and pop-ups, the lawsuit said.
posted by Fergie @ 1/25/2006 06:41:00 AM
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