'Anti-spyware' peddlers to pay $2 million
Bogus claims cost dear
Two US companies that promoted anti-spyware products through a series of deceptive claims have agreed
to pay a total of nearly $2 million to settle charges brought against them by the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC).
According to the FTC, each of the dodgy operators claimed to have detected spyware on
consumers' computers, regardless of whether there really was any, before selling the consumers anti-spyware software that either did
not work or did not work as advertised.
As well as paying out $2 million, the companies are prohibited from making deceptive claims, and
one is barred from selling or marketing any anti-spyware
product or service in the future.
The full story can be read here.
10 January 2006
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