The Washington state attorney general’s office has sued a New York company and individuals in New Hampshire, New York, 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.
Some of the spam and pop-up ads sent on behalf of Secure Computer imitated Microsoft Corp. messages and products, the lawsuit said….Many of the advertisements purported to be from Microsoft and flashed warnings that spyware or viruses had been discovered on a user’s computer.
Their crappy software actually would open a computer to easier access for spyware.
I had a customer that got this software. It would run a scan that took about 2 seconds, said that it scanned 3 files and the system was clean!
Meanwhile, it installed spyware and viruses onto the system anbd certainly did nothing to clean the system up!
After giving them info from http://www.spywarewarrior.com, they were able to get a revrsal of credit card charges
Go get ’em. Sue their asses off, then when they can’t pay, forgive half of what is due. Then let the IRS go after them to pay the income tax on the forgiven amount.