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FTC Shuts Down Fraudulent Antispyware Company

Posted by timothy on from the click-here-to-remove-viruses dept.

spewey writes "The Federal Trade Commission has shut down MaxTheater, Inc., alleging the company participated in fraudulent practices with its Spyware Assassin site, which purportedly scanned user machines for spyware and reported infections, even though no scan was done and in most cases, the user machine was clean. The site then offered the user a $30 product to remove the spyware, which the commission reports 'didn't do a thing.'"

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  1. Re:Clean Machines? by thesnarky1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    After I do a sweep of my system using McAffe, Zone Alarm, and Ad-aware, mine's pretty sqeeky clean. At least enough to know the 121 infections it reported had to be false.

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