FTC’s first spyware case
p2pnet.net News:- The US Federal Trade Commission has filed its first spyware case against former self-styled Spam King Sanford Wallace, says the Center for Democracy and Technology, which made the original complaint last February.
Wallace is president and owner of Seismic Entertainment Productions, Inc, and SmartBot.Net Inc.
CDT’s complaint highlighted browser hijacking and deceptive advertising run by Seismic advertising, and CDT subsequently documented forced installations caused by a Seismic website, it says.
"Since at least December 2003, and continuing thereafter, Seismic has marketed various products, including purported ‘anti-spyware’ software called ‘Spy Wiper’ and ‘Spy Deleter,’ on behalf of others," says the FTC.
"Seismic advertises these products through ‘pop-up’ advertisements displayed to consumers using various Internet web sites that it controls, including the web sites at www.default-homepagenetwork. com and downloads.default-homepage-network.com. "Seismic also downloads to and installs on consumers’ computers various advertising and other software programs, including Favoriteman, TrojanDownloader and Clearsearch."
Spyware Warrior quotes Wallace as saying, "We believe the U.S. government is attempting to enforce federal laws that have yet to be enacted. We feel this is a political move and it is being made at the expense of legal business operations. I am not surprised at all that my companies and I, Sanford Wallace, were picked as the “poster boy. I find the timing and target of this action to be extremely convenient and painfully obvious. We deny any wrongdoings and plan to pursue all legal protections, remedies and freedoms."
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See:-
browser hijacking – FTC Files First Spyware Case Following CDT Complaint
Spy Deleter – FTC Complaint against Seismic, Smartbot.net and Sanford Wallace in US District Court in New Hampshire [PDF] , October 7, 2004
painfully obvious – Poor little Sanford! NOT, October 9, 2004
October 11th, 2004 at 8:19 pm
How is Sanford Wallace still around? Did’nt he get sued for millions already?
October 24th, 2004 at 9:54 pm
An open letter to sanford wallace,
You reap what you sow. You deliberately cause chaos and havoc for unlearned people utilizing computers. You aren’t ethical enough to do business in a proper manner so you have to resort to sneaky underhanded, deceitful, devious and i hope soon to be illegal methods to earn your living. Nobody wants you, Nobody cares about you and we all wish you would find another way to make a living. You can’t justify your method of earning money by saying if you didn’t do it somebody else would.
I hope your mother told you about the bridge and other children jumping off of it. If not, she should have.
Go crawl back in whatever little corner of the world you came from and let us live our lives without your interference.