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Extortion or just a "negative option feature"? FTC cracks down on deceptive pop-ups
Source: Ars Technica
________ The Federal Trade Commission has busted a set of companies that infected users' computers with pop-ups, then demanded cash to make the pop-ups go away. Now, the operators of the scheme have to pay $500,000 in fines and offer removal instructions for the software on their web sites. |
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Flash Banner Hater
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Sock it to 'em - YESSS!
Ransomware crapware, now the penalties should be extended to all fraudulent alerting software, and to senders of similar Messenger spam.
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