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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."

2 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. So . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So when will Sony be indicted?

  2. Simple by wehup · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like the feds could clean all of this up by launching a quick investigation into *every* affiliate of the spyware/adware companies. The only way an affiliate can get someone to load this junk is by trickery or exploit.