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Innovative Marketing

Grab bag

by certifiedbug on March 13, 2009

in This and That

Anti-Social Networking

Differences between IE8 Compatibility View and IE7

Completing the Windows Experience with Windows Live

TinyURL usage becoming more common in Phishing and IM Attacks – Harry Waldron – Corporate and Home Security

Conficker.C variant set for April 1st surprise, CA says

Security Updates available for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9

Foxit version 3.0 fixes serious vulnerabilities in its Reader products. Download

Windows 7 Security Enhancements

Transcript – Windows 7: To the Beta and Beyond
2/12/2009 Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable.

Windows 7 Virtual Roundtable Q&A: Part One

03-09-09
Developments in the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit
03-18-09

http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2009/03/18/1679014.aspx

PDF Documents Encourage Zango Installs Via Illegally Ripped TV Shows

Fixed in Firefox 3.0.7
MFSA 2009-11 URL spoofing with invisible control characters
MFSA 2009-10 Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
MFSA 2009-09 XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect
MFSA 2009-08 Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
MFSA 2009-07 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Update from within browser or download from Mozilla.

Opera v9.64.
Advisory
Download

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Innovative Marketing Update

by certifiedbug on February 11, 2009

in Internet Security

Sandi at Spyware Sucks.

I’ll include some history of events so that you can get a sense of perspective with regards to the time frame around these events.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous, and an update about the status of the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

Certifiedbug:
Federal Trade Commission bites Innovative Marketing (WinFixer and other Rogues)

FTC complaint against Innovative Marketing

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FTC complaint against Innovative Marketing

December 10, 2008

PDF here, these people are scary. More than one million consumers have been scammed into purchasing the Defendants’ software products to remove non-existent problems “detected” by the Defendants’ fake scans. The rogues invariably scared users into believing their computer was infested by malicious files, programs or “illegal” pornography, inducing panic and a purchase which led [...]

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Federal Trade Commission bites Innovative Marketing (WinFixer and other Rogues)

December 10, 2008

FTC Press Release Court Halts Bogus Computer Scans At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has issued a temporary halt to a massive “scareware” scheme, which falsely claimed that scans had detected viruses, spyware, and illegal pornography on consumers’ computers. According to the FTC, the scheme has tricked more than [...]

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