Spam King Sanford Wallace Finally Hit With $4M Penalty

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via internetnews.com.

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Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal 
spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.

A New Hampshire federal district court ordered Wallace and his company, Smartbot.Net, to pay more than $4 million in 
restitution, and it permanently barred Wallace from downloading any software to consumers 'computer without the users' 
consent.

Wallace was at the center of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) first spyware case in October 2004.

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More here:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3603791

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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