September 29, 2008, Washington state’s Attorney General and lawyers from Microsoft’s Internet Safety Enforcement team will announce several lawsuits against aggressive marketeers of scareware who are being charged under Washington’s Computer Spyware Act.
Microsoft and Washington’s AG have worked together before, jointly suing ‘Secure Computer’ for using fake error messages to scare users into buying its Spyware Cleaner software.
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