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Pfizer and Microsoft go after Viagra Spammers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-jokes-so-little-time dept.

Weird_Hock writes "This story from Reuters tells about the joint effort from Pfizer and Microsoft to go after illegal sellers of Viagra. Pfizer is going after the sellers and Microsoft after the spammers. Looks like they're targeting both sides of the money chain."

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  1. No Case by fembots · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spammers are selling V|agra you silly!

    Microsoft should double-dip and file a parallel lawsuits against spammers who sell Full Version WinXP PRO for $35.

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  2. Stop taking the fun out of life! by themaddone · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they go after my music... then they go after my drugs...

    But they'll never get my... my... ohmigod, what do I have left??

    1. Re:Stop taking the fun out of life! by flint · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your rifle. Cause without Viagra your gun is useless.

      "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for killing, this is for fun."

  3. Analysts.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..are predicting a long, hard battle.

    1. Re:Analysts.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...with stiff penalties.

  4. Oh no! by enoraM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now I have to settle for my increase in girth, length and volume, since they will also go for v1agra and v!agra

    Anyhow - if the big dogs are moving now - after the can-spam-act, it's interesting what kind of stable equilibruum the next generation spam will be. It won't go away - It'll just reach the next stage.

    On the bottom of the first page are the stock qoutes von Pfizer and Microsoft. There is a horizontal movement of Pfizer and a slight downward movement of Microsoft. What does that suggest about the markets expectation of future distribution of vi4gra?

  5. As always by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft want to be the biggest dicks around...

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  6. Just maybe... by gammygator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they'll come up with a product that keeps my servers up.

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  7. Re:There's a joke here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets not go about this half cocked. Microsoft and Pfizer will need to get a firm grip on the situation, and stroking big egos won't make the solution come any sooner.

  8. First draft of the press release: by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 5, Funny
    Pfizer and Microsoft announced today that they had stiffened their resolve to go after sellers of counterfeit Viagra(r). They realized such spams were peaking, and they knew they had to harden the course for such counterfeiters.

    "These guys think they can keep profits rising endlessly," complained a Pfizer spokesperson. "They are really beginning to poke us in the eye with their nonsense. We are a big company, and Viagra has helped up grow considerably. We won't let these crooks cut our profits off prematurely."

    (Memo to editorial staff: Does the above sound right? Something seems a bit odd.)

  9. Re:Why not go after the users? by ThomasFlip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Middle aged men who need pills to induce raging hard ons have enough problems as it is.

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  10. Re:Shouldn't the headline really read: by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pfizer and Microsoft rise to the challenge."

    "Pfizer and Microsoft erect barriers to Viagra spam."

    "Pfizer and Microsoft have the balls to go after Viagra spammers."

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