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FTC Freezes Assets of Spyware Operation

FTC Freezes Assets of Spyware Operation

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Chief Marketer Staff

The Federal Trade Commission has frozen the assets of an operation it charged with using bogus scans and spam to market an anti-spyware program.

Defendants Trustsoft Inc. and its Houston-based principal, Danilo Ladendorf sent pop-up and e-mail messages informing consumers that their computers had been remotely “scanned” and that spyware had been detected, according to the FTC.

The operation aggressively and deceptively marketed its alleged anti-spyware product SpyKiller, using the Web sites of affiliates, banner and pop-up ads, and spam but ultimately had not performed any such scans, the FTC further alleged.

The defendants

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