December 20, 2006
MySpace HELL: Helping a reader of StopScum turns into a Saturday spent in a Virus/Trojan and pop up Hell
Judy called me and wondered what to do. She was sitting at her "kids" computer which is also used by the entire family and MySpace was delivering Trojans/Viruses which Norton AV was catching and deleting. Compounding this weekend attack were full page pops with Advertising and no easy way to close them and a phony Flash security notice to download same. The only other open application was MySpace. I walked her through the appropriate procedures and promised her that I would also take a look.
Posted by Steve_S
December 18, 2006
MySpace Teen Abuse WARNINGS: A magnet for Spyware slime bags and every kind of abuse you could ever imagine.
Your teen kids use MySpace. Over 70 million "kids" use MySpace. Over 26 million uniques per day hit this site. It's the largest magnet in the world for every kind of teen abuse you could imagine including but not limited to Spyware, identity theft, spam, and porn of all flavors. It's going to get even worse so take careful notes when you read this entry.
Posted by Steve_S
November 11, 2006
BotMaster Criminal Jeanson James Ancheta pleads guilty and gets 57 months (almost 5 years) in federal prison.
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.
Posted by Steve_S
October 07, 2006
Additional data on the FTC default Judgment against Spyware kings Sanford Wallace, Smartbot.Net, OptinTrade and Jared Lansky. Answers to your emails on this issue. Other Spyware players involved in this case exposed.
Your insightful emails warrant another entry on this issue. Featuring additional Spyware "conspirators" named John Robert Martinson and Spy Wiper, Spy Deleter, Odysseus Marketing and its principal, Walter Rines, plus a litany of additional characters. All of which reads like a "Mafia Conspiracy" because in many respects, that's exactly what it is. Finally, my thoughts on serious JAIL sentences for these Spyware players.
Posted by Steve_S