D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups

bizpile writes "D Squared Solutions, the company created by college students Anish Dhingra and Jeffrey Davis, has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. They were sending pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many Windows operating systems. Their attorneys claimed the pair were not trying to extort consumers with their ads and only intended to send one a day to computer users. Lawyer Anthony J. Dain has said the ads are 'annoyances you have to deal with in a free society.'" (The San Diego Union-Tribune also has a story.)

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[t_allardyce]

I dont know why everyone is complaining and demanding stricter laws? its not like theres no way around this. They are able to do this because of a bug (and dont bother telling me its a feature) of windows 2k/xp that defaults to leaving this security hole known as "windows messenger" turned on. Sure these people are scum and i'd love to see them both burn at the stake, and technically they've been doing something that any of us would get life over because its "hacking into a remote computer system" or some bullshit like that but really we should be fighting to make stuff like this legal. All it takes is for Microsoft to default the service to off and for people who dont need it to turn it off or make sure it cant be reached from outside their network (or get a bloody firewall). Once thats done theres no more problem, no need to stick stupid laws in to complicate what is already a very crap constitution. Same goes for pop-up windows - they are part of the javascript implementation, just turn that functionality off and you no longer have a problem. If it was a service that was needed and there was no forseeable fix to stop its misuse then just maybe legal action would be needed, but thats not the case here, its just a stupid function that can be disabled in 10 seconds.

Think Different!

[Chris Tucker]

Obligatory and traditional post stating that the Mac is OS is superior because it lacks such "features" as Messenger, is unaffected by Windows viri and that iCab , the Mac only browser has a popup blocker built into it.

Also included in the traditional post is a gratuitous slam against Windows users: "Windows users are poopieheads for using Windows!"

Finishing up with a "In Soviet Russia..." joke

In Soviet Russia, you annoy popups!

It has been my pleasure to provide the Slashdot Community with the obligatory and traditional posting making fun of the Windows OS and WIndows Users, contrasting the Windows OS with the Mac OS,in a snarky, superior and uninformative manner, in a comment thread about yet another flaw/fault/sploit in the Windows OS.

Thank you for your gracious attention!