D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 31, 2004 @04:21PM from the how-very-gracious-of-them dept.

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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Re:White Hat Spammer! by Joey+Patterson · 2004-07-31 16:48 · Score: 5, Informative

How to Disable Windows Messenger Service" courtesy of the University of Virginia.
Re:White Hat Spammer! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-31 16:58 · Score: 1, Informative
1. Start
2. Run
3. sc config messenger start= disabled
Court Documents by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-31 17:14 · Score: 1, Informative

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0323223.htm
Re:We promise only to bother you once by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-31 17:48 · Score: 1, Informative

In case you didn't get it, it's beautiful quote from the Idiot President.