A federal judge has ordered a man known as the "Spam King" to disable so-called spyware programs that infiltrate people's computers, track their Internet use and flood them with pop-up advertising.
Published:
26 October 2004 y., Tuesday
U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico issued a temporary restraining order Thursday against Stanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net Inc. of Richboro, Pa., and Seismic Entertainment Productions Inc. of Rochester. SmartBot's principal place of business is Barrington.
Prosecutors sought the injunction on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, which targeted Wallace in its first anti-spyware action.
The judge ordered Wallace to remove software code that exploits security holes in computer operating systems and Web browsers, then tracks people's Internet use to bombard them with pop-up ads.
Wallace also is accused of trying to sell computer users $30 remedies called "Spy Wiper" and "Spy Deleter" that the FTC says don't work.
"Spyware" describes a broad category of software that can be installed through unsafe e-mails or Web pages. It sometimes is bundled with other software that consumers download and install, such as file-sharing programs that can be used to download music and movies illegally.
Spyware programs quietly monitor which Web sites a consumer visits, and some may even redirect users to different sites. They can make computers sluggish or cause them to crash.
Šaltinis:
story.news.yahoo.com
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Software company announced new structure_ of it_s business.
more »
Hewlett Packard is due to launch a new desktop computer in the UK, with pre-release users currently including interior designer Sophie Conran and her son Felix Conran.
more »
Unisys Corp. the Blue Bell computer services and systems company, said it named Peter A. Altabef as president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1.
more »
IBC has named Tim Richards as the next chairman of its Partnership Board. He will take over from Mike Martin, who retires at the end of 2014.
more »
Unisys has won a contract to provide the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with a range of data centre support services.
more »
Networking solutions giant Cisco today said it has signed a multi-year agreement with software major Microsoft to modernise data centres.
more »
Cisco, a leading provider of wired and wireless network solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leader's quadrant of The 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure.
more »
US giant Cisco Systems has announced plans to build a global InterCloud - the world's largest network of clouds - in collaboration with a set of partners.
more »
Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite designed specifically for Android tablets.
more »
Google Docs now offers its users with the option of editing all types of Microsoft Office.
more »
Cisco announced today that it has acquired cloud platform startup Assemblage, as the company continues its focus on enterprise collaboration.
more »