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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org> on 2005/03/13 12:57:15 UTC

OT: "Spyware Assassin" suspended

  http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20050311/tc_nm/tech_spyware_dc

FTC Says Anti-Spyware Vendor Shut Down

Fri Mar 11, 4:31 PM ET
[...]

The makers of Spyware Assassin tried to scare consumers into
buying software through pop-up ads and e-mail that warned their
computers had been infected with malicious monitoring software,
the Federal Trade Commission said. 

Free spyware scans offered by Spokane, Washington-based
MaxTheater Inc. turned up evidence of spyware even on machines
that were entirely clean, and its $29.95 Spyware Assassin program
did not actually remove spyware, the FTC said. 

A U.S. court has ordered the company and its owner, Thomas
Delanoy, to suspend its activities until a court hearing on
Tuesday. The company could be required to give back all the money
it made from selling Spyware Assassin. 
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Comment:  LOL!

Jeff C.
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