Re: FTC files complaint against "Bogus ComputerScan Software" makers

["William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>]

I remember that.  I think Stu and Sunbelt learned a lot from those days. Stu
had to jump though hoops to get off DNS block lists too at the time.
I don't think the same thing has occurred since (has it?). That was 2002.

Several clients of mine did not even consider Sunbelt products at that time.
Many would now.


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:30 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] FTC files complaint against "Bogus ComputerScan
Software" makers

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:10:10PM -0500, Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> I don't know how many dealings you've had with the FTC, but we've had 
> a fair amount of interaction with their staff.

Interesting.  What have they had to say about "Spammin' Stu" Sjouwerman of
Sunbelt Software, who not only had the audacity to spam (hardly uncommon)
but did so in part in order to hawk a product called "IHateSpam"?
(See redacted and de-HTML-ized spample below.)

*You* seem like a capable guy, Alex, and as far as I can tell, your actions
in the Julie Amero case were exemplary.  But Sunbelt Software is permanently
blacklisted here, along with every other so-called "anti-spam" vendor that
used/uses spam -- about two dozen so far.  Those companies who are
deliberately making the spam problem worse in order to profit don't belong
on the Internet.

---Rsk


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