Spammer Gets Prison 0
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about “bots” and “botnets.”
The law is starting to strike back:
Among the machines authorities said Jeanson James Ancheta infected in 2004 and 2005 were those at the China Lake Naval Air Facility and the Defense Information System Agency headquartered in Falls Church, Va.
In other news, “Spamford Wallace” been ordered to pay a multi-million dollar settlement for planting spyware:
Sanford Wallace was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of running an operation that infected computers with software that caused flurries of pop-up ads. It then tried to sell consumers cures called “Spy Wiper” and “Spy Deleter” for $30
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