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FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn
An anonymous reader writes "The Federal Trade Commission has convinced a federal judge to pull the plug on a 3FN.net, a.k.a. 'Pricewert LLC,' a Northern California based hosting provider. The FTC alleges that 3FN/Pricewert was directly involved in setting up spam-spewing botnets, among other illegal activities, the Washington Post's Security Fix Blog writes. From the story: 'Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.' The story quotes a former Justice Dept. expert saying the FTC action may be a smoke screen for a larger criminal investigation by the federal government in 3FN's activities."
...with their links which are suddenly broken.
'Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.'
Yes but how much were they charging per month? It doesn't say. You probably get all this stuff with the "premium" package.
But what makes it different than any other ISP?
Their bribe was late.
Blank until
how are you able to call him with your phone up yer bum?
Precision flatulence.
Looks justfine in IE 6! Just have to enable Active X and set your security settings to "low".
Well, the body was found in a park ...
and:
"the FTC's authority gives it the power to shut down companies that appear to be engaged in unfair and deceptive practices"
Deceptive practices? Well, we've all heard about the crackwhore complaining to the cops about being sold bogus rocks. I can just imagine how this went.
perv: Dude, I paid mad money for this CP and it turns out the girl was 18. They ripped me off!
ftc: Gee, how awful. What was that url again? We'll look into this immediately.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
but it comes as no surprise to me that a seemingly unrelated government agency is going after these guys.
The FTC has the authoring to go after people running "illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams". That's part of their mission.
Looks like somebody at the FTC found out that those penis enlargement pills don't work at all.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
When you think of the children when you think of pornography, I'm fairly sure that IS illegal and not censorship.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Looks like the Slashdot clowns are "targeting" all browsers. Everything sucks.
Naw. Part of the content was hosted on 3FN and the FTC just took it down.
(It's a joke. Mod it "funny".)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way