Re: webroot products

From: Vanguard (use_ReplyTo_header)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:28:06 -0600

"David Shaw" <dave.shaw@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1110685585.939912.195900@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Interestingly enough, just this morning I was reading on Slashdot.org
> that a spyware company (Spyware Assassin) I believe was convicted of
> giving false positives in order to entice users to buy their full
> product, and shut down. I'm sure Spyware Assassin wasn't/isn't the
> only
> company to do such a thing.

See http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/03/maxtheater.htm and
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0423213/050311comp0423213.pdf.

Sanford Wallace, one-time self-proclaimed spam king, moved from spam to
spyware. He would distribute spyware and have sites with popups telling
users they were infected and had to buy his anti-spyware product. The
FTC opened a lawsuit against in in October 2004. 

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