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By Marguerite Reardon
Posted on ZDNet News: Oct 25, 2004 7:04:00 PM

The Federal Trade Commission won an important victory last week in its fight to protect consumers from spyware, the software that tracks unsuspecting Web surfers, bombards them with advertisements and sometimes even steals log-in information and passwords.

On Thursday, the U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H., granted a temporary restraining order against former self-proclaimed spam king Sanford Wallace and his two companies, Seismic Entertainment Productions and Smartbot.net.

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Class Action
Not that any of the real victims would get rich, but if there's an official class action that would rape the pockets of the people creating adware, sign me up.

I like the thought of 1 hour of c... (Read the rest)
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Is this being spearheaded by Republicans?  worknman | 10/25/04
Most probably..  Jeff Spicoli | 10/25/04
Good..  d_jedi | 10/25/04
pffftttt... jail sentance...  Valis Keogh | 10/25/04
If..  d_jedi | 10/25/04
Restrain him with BARBED WIRE !!!  realitycheck101 | 10/25/04
Having sex with him won't help.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/25/04
How about some real facts...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/25/04
You can...  BitTwiddler | 10/26/04
Anybody bothered to visit the perps websites?  mpjbo | 10/25/04
"Aggressuve?" They call THAT aggressive?  James Dean_z | 10/25/04
Victory? What victory?  misereor | 10/26/04
"unfair use of spyware"  BitTwiddler | 10/26/04
Class Action  ct2193@... | 12/07/04

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