11/15: Microsoft Files Suit Against Alledged Spyware Distributor
Posted by Patrick
From eWeek.com:
Via Joe Wilcox.
One day after the United States Federal Trade Commission took its own legal action against ERG Ventures, its affiliates and its operators in the company's home state of Nevada, Microsoft brought its own lawsuit against the firm accusing it of violating the Washington Computer Spyware Act and the Washington Consumer Protection Act. ...
Microsoft alleges in its lawsuit that the defendants distributed their programs through sites built to end users, including a site that uses the brand name of well-known golf equipment manufacturer Taylor Made.
Once installed, the Trojan applications would reportedly dial out and download numerous other programs that would saddle users' computers with pop-up advertisements, track their Web usage habits, redirect infected browsers to suspicious URLs, add desktop icons to Windows and change the registry settings on Windows PCs, Microsoft said.
Microsoft alleges in its lawsuit that the defendants distributed their programs through sites built to end users, including a site that uses the brand name of well-known golf equipment manufacturer Taylor Made.
Once installed, the Trojan applications would reportedly dial out and download numerous other programs that would saddle users' computers with pop-up advertisements, track their Web usage habits, redirect infected browsers to suspicious URLs, add desktop icons to Windows and change the registry settings on Windows PCs, Microsoft said.
Via Joe Wilcox.
