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CDT:US failing to prosecute Cyber criminals

August 14, 2008

State AGs Fail to Adequately Protect Online Consumers New report from the Center for American Progress and Center for Democracy and Technology finds that state attorneys general receive thousands of complaints of online fraud and abuse but have launched relatively few cases in responseWashington, D.C. — State attorneys general received thousands of consumer complaints of [...]

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Zango layoffs

June 22, 2008

Previous Certifiedbug: Zango now John Cook, Seattle PI Sources say that two executives have also departed, including Executive Vice President of Corporate Development York Baur and Chief Technology Officer Ken Smith. Smith, who co-founded the company in 1999, is the brother of Chief Executive Keith Smith. A Zango spokesman declined to comment on the departures. [...]

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Trojan ‘fastmp3player’ fake MP3, MPG files

May 6, 2008

Flagged red at Site Advisor Internet Storm Center 2008-04-29 Scripts in ASF files Reported 2008 Apr 07 at Bit Defender as Trojan.Downloader.WMA.Wimad.N Spreading: very low Not any more. Helped along by P2P users, this one is now spreading fast. When a user attempts to load one of these MP3 and MPG files, which are fake [...]

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Zango now

May 2, 2008

Zango is in the news again. The Register: Zango’s adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse Last month, it asked the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision by a lower-court judge that held Kaspersky was immune from such lawsuits. Sunbelt Blog: Zango partnerships Zango reacts to Sunbelt blog posts PCMag: Must [...]

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C-NetMedia continues deceptive practices

February 19, 2008

Alex Eckelberry reports that despite press on the matter, C-NetMedia is still trying to fool people. I’m afraid it’s going to take the FTC to handle this one. Apparently the search engines aren’t self-policing on this one. Article and screenshots: Incredible — C-NetMedia still continues its grossly deceptive practices

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Ben Edelman on C-NetMedia’s business and marketing practices, “Work To Be Done”

February 16, 2008

Additional comment on Certifiedbug’s “C-NetMedia’s Deceptive Practices”. In his missive at C-NetMedia , Edelman criticized several prominent companies for failing to hold C-NetMedia accountable for its practices. Google and other search engines could block the widespread deceptive ads from C-NetMedia and its marketing partners. C-Net and its partners have continued these practices for more than [...]

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C-NetMedia Deceptive Practices

February 14, 2008

Spyware Researcher Ben Edelman continues his investigation on C-NetMedia. Critiquing C-NetMedia’s Anti-Spyware Offerings and Advertising Practices Not every “anti-spyware” program is what it claims to be. Some truly have users’ interests at heart — identifying and removing bona fide risks to privacy, security, stability, or performance. Others resort to a variety of tricks to confuse [...]

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Spybot-S&D version 1.5.2 released

January 30, 2008

Anti-spyware program by Patrick Kolla and Team Spybot. Spybot-S&D 1.5 has quite a lot of advantages over version 1.4: improved compatibility, more effective detections and new functions. Between all the positive feedback we received, there were also some things that needed to be improved: the immunization sometimes needed to be applied twice before sticking, many [...]

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Mac Trojan

October 31, 2007

Mac users who practice unsafe hex will find more than they bargained for. From Intego: Exploit: OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Discovered: October 30, 2007 Risk: Critical OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a [...]

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DirectRevenue-Best Offers, shut down

October 24, 2007

Posted on its home page and giving no reason for the sudden closure. Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software tool, and an email based support service. By most accounts DirectRevenue made a lot of money off unsuspecting users.

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