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FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-just-crazy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FTC has shut down D Squared, a company that's been spamming via the Windows Messenger Pop-Up Service. In some cases, ads would pop-up every 10 minutes, and only advertised a $30 product that disabled similar pop-up ads. The FTC is slamming the extortion gauntlet on them. Interestingly, the FTC only caught onto all this because one of their own commissioners was among those getting spammed."

3 of 472 comments (clear)

  1. Messenger spam? by big_groo · · Score: 1, Redundant
    net stop messenger

    This is a problem?

  2. Re:2 billion Internet addresses? by zbowling · · Score: 0, Redundant

    more like...
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    0.0.0.1
    0.0.0.2

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    No.
  3. Re:When using Windows XP by BCW2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is a way. Open windows explorer and manually delete messenger. Then open Regedit and delete all references to messenger in the registry. Problem solved. Now if that just worked on outlook I could close another gaping security hole on friends computers. Never have had a problem with Linux on my machine.

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