Alleged Adware Purveyor Indicted

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."

Comments

Re:Just 60,000?

[Senes]

$60,000 over the course of one year. As annoying as spam is, it really does not pay well unless done in large amounts. The big catch here was that very little was invested into making that money because other people's computers were doing all of the grunt work.

Re:So what happens to the Companies

[NineNine]

Actually, GammaCash has been an affiliate program for a long time. They have a good reputation (if not quite the best payouts). The porn industry pretty much self-regulates. Legitimate porn purveyors don't spam. It's these amateurs that give us a bad name.

Re:evil axes to grind

[SB5]

Not all of South Carolina is a 3rd world flea pit. They do have some nice beaches and other nice places there.