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Makers of SearchMiracle/Elitebar busted!!

Unread postby Nick-YF19 » November 10th, 2005, 3:12 pm

What started out as a post at Spyware Warrior about some police activity at Enternet Media's offices in Woodland Park, CA turns out to be the real thing.
An operation that uses the lure of free lyric files, browser upgrades, and ring tones to download spyware and adware on consumers’ computers has been ordered to halt its illegal downloads by a U.S. District Court at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The court also halted the deceptive downloads of an affiliate who helped spread the malicious software by offering blogs free background music. The music code downloaded by the blogs was bundled with a program that flashed warnings to consumers who visited the blog sites about the security of their computer systems. Consumers who opted to upgrade by clicking, downloaded the spyware onto their computers. The court has frozen the organization’s assets pending a further hearing. The FTC will seek to bar the deceptive and unfair practices permanently and require the operators to give up their ill-gotten gains.


http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/11/enternet.htm
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