While I’m overjoyed to see this Spyware Affiliate, hacker, cracker, BotNet slime bag, and criminal go to federal prison, I’m going to examine the enablers. Jeanson James Ancheta admitted generating for himself and an unindicted coconspirator more than $107,000 in advertising affiliate proceeds by silently downloading Spyware/Adware to more than 400,000 infected computers that he controlled. Ancheta was also ordered to pay approximately $15,000 in restitution to the Weapons Division of the United States Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake and the Defense Information Systems Agency. He also forfeited to the government more than $60,000 in cash, a BMW automobile and computer equipment.

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