Fighting malware and spam
Microsoft wins block on spam list seller
Court bars bulk email address sales site from further business.
Microsoft has won a judgement against a UK man accused of selling lists of email addresses for the purpose of spamming.
The man, Paul Martin MacDonald, ran a business called Bizads, which sold email addresses in bulk. Microsoft argued that the sale of these addresses aided and abetted spammers and damaged the reputation of its Hotmail webmail service. The judge in the case agreed to put an immediate block on further address sales, and also said that Microsoft was entitled to compensation for losses resulting from spamming.
A detailed report of the case can be found on legal analysis site Out-Law.com.
18 December 2006
Tags:
spam 
del.icio.us 
digg this
Poll
Will the current banking crisis lead to an increase in phishing attacks?Leave a comment
View 1 comment
VB100 certification
With a new set of samples to measure detection against, a new platform on new hardware and a selection of new products in the mix, John Hawes had his work cut out in this comparative review on Windows XP SP3.
See full results.
Virus Bulletin currently has 138,346 registered users.