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Alleged Adware Purveyor Indicted

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the facing-the-music dept.

weeva writes "Wired News reports that federal prosecutors have indicted a 20-year-old California man for installing adware on 400,000 Windows machines he compromised with a variant of RxBot. Jeanson Ancheta allegedly pulled in $60,000 in affiliate fees from porn pop-up company Gammacash, and 180solutions subsidiary ZangoCash. The feds hope to seize his BMW."

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  1. Congratulations!! by Senes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone give those guys a free iPod.

  2. Hurhurhur by HugePedlar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!

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    Argh.
    1. Re:Hurhurhur by debilo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!

      I'd pay for those!

    2. Re:Hurhurhur by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

      Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!

      I'd pay for those!

      Okay:

      One day Lil porn popup says to his father: I want to get married.
      Father: Oh yeah, do you have someone in mind?
      Porn popup: Yeah, grandma
      Father: Well, there is a problem, you want to marry my mother.
      Porn popup: so what? you married mine...

      Can I get the cash now?

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      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Re:Not much by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get in 400.000 machines only to earn $60,000

    You know, he just *might* have automated the process of getting into each machine...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  4. Stick it to him by siphonophore · · Score: 3, Funny

    By "seize his BMW" I hope they mean "seize his head and put it on a pike in the Internet town square between Google and MSN."

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    1. Re:Stick it to him by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

      By "seize his BMW" I hope they mean "seize his head and put it on a pike in the Internet town square between Google and MSN."

      In other news: a decapitated head found on Internet town square strangely smells of rotten fish...

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      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  5. Noble Cause by GodOfCode · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why does this always happen to men who work for noble causes?! After all, this chap was just facilitating the distribution of knowledge and information.

  6. evil axes to grind by dankelley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn him, for buying a car not made by US workers.

    1. Re:evil axes to grind by JonathanR · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wot, an X5 or a Z4? They're made in South Carolina.

  7. Re:So what happens to the Companies by adtifyj · · Score: 3, Funny

    and then when the faeces strike the ventilator you can honestly claim ignorance...

    It doesnt matter how the shit ended up on your face; it doesnt look good.

  8. Overheard at FBI... by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fed1: Let's see, we can go after any one of these 3 guys.
    Fed2: What cool stuff do they have?
    Fed1: Well, this one guy has a bike and a couple of laptops.The other one has a BMW and a couple of ipods and the other guy a Toyota and a house.
    Fed2: Hmm. That's a difficult one. I'd say,lets go after guy number 2 with the BMW and we keep quiet about the ipods and pocket them. In a month it will blow over and my wife can drive the BMW.
    Fed1: But I want a bike!
    Fed2: Focus pinky!

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    "I used to have that really cool,funny sig ,but it got stolen."
  9. Seizing by MECC · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The feds hope to seize his BMW."

    Hopefully they'll seize other things of his that start with the letter 'B'

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    "We are all geniuses when we dream"
    - E.M. Cioran
    1. Re:Seizing by zootm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bentley?

  10. wow, what a kingpin by EllynGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sixty thousand smackeroos, that's the high life all right. After buying the BMW he had gas money for a few weeks.

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    we will end no whine before its time

  11. Kids, try this at home by Chapter80 · · Score: 2, Funny
    20-year-old California man... The feds hope to seize his BMW.

    Moral of the story, do this when you are 17! Then you get to keep your BMW.

    1. Re:Kids, try this at home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ... Jeanson Ancheta ...

      Wow. Even his name is right for the business. I wonder if he's represented by the well-known law firm of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe?

    2. Re:Kids, try this at home by plover · · Score: 2, Funny
      Actually, I was kind of wondering "which" feds wanted to seize his Beemer, cuz I want to be a part of that crowd:

      "Sweet ride, John, where'd you get that Viper?"
      "Some kid wrote a spambot last week. I'm hoping to bring down this other worm author next week, I hear he's got a mint-condition '62 Vette."
      "Nice. I got a Mercedes yesterday, but there's this Porsche, I mean virus author who has a Porsche, that I'm working on for tomorrow."

      Yeah, I could do that.

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      John
  12. Ah, the delicious irony by NetCow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funnily enough, in Romanian "ancheta" means "investigation".
    Gotta love this...

  13. Re:So . . . by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'll see signs. Aeronautical swine are probably the most visible.

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    Get paid to code OSS
  14. Re:Bad Summary: More than just Adware Purveyor by pyro_peter_911 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not necessarily...consider this, what's worse:

    Your wife divorcing you to marry some jerk she met on the internet
    or
    Your wife divorcing you to marry your best friend.

    Wait! What? I don't understand why you think there's a problem with either of these options.

    Peter

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    Downsize DC Today!
  15. The real problem? by geobeck · · Score: 2, Funny

    "If you use our advertising software, you absolutely shall not under any circumstances anyway ever make use of hackbots like the ones at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/code to install our software on any computer you do not own without the express consent of the user. The instructions at www.hakz0rz.com/180solutions/popuphakz/howto will tell you exactly what you are absolutely not allowed to do under any circumstances anyway ever, *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*."

    Forget the small-timers and go after the real problem.

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