Dutch regulator OPTA fines spyware purveyors €1m

by certifiedbug on December 18, 2007

in Internet Security

By Jan Libbenga. channelregister

It is the first time OPTA has imposed fines for spreading malicious Trojans, and has been called “one of the biggest cases of illegal software crime”, by the regulator.
In 2005, the two unnamed businessmen distributed software called DollarRevenue among millions of internet users. Approximately 450 million software files were installed on 22 million computers in the Netherlands and abroad.

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