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FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users
coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today got a court to at least temporarily halt a massive 'scareware' scheme, which falsely claimed that scans had detected viruses, spyware, and pornography on consumers' computers.
According to the FTC, the scheme has tricked more than one million consumers into buying computer security products such as WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus. The court also froze the assets of Innovative Marketing, Inc. and ByteHosting Internet Services, LLC to preserve the possibility of providing consumers with monetary redress, the FTC stated."
The excuse I use for using Windows is that Linux doesn't work on my computer. I've tried several distros and trying to use the internet is unusable on any of them. My computer is only a couple of years old, I shouldn't be having this problem.
Until Linux solves these problems, it will never be commonly used.
Do you ever see Macs with those problems?
linux is for dick smoking fags. who cares if it can load from all your pcs? those of us with real skills can just buy a pc to run what we need it to. i guess it's not that easy for the bitch pizza boys.
These idiots and mac fanboys are instant hitler just add a perfectly reasonable comment (water)
It must be their lack of balls (only one testicle)