Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com) Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:19:43 -0500

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(nothing yet on the FTC website. If there's nothing significant continuing beyond what the press clip reports, I'm very disappointed) "CONCORD, N.H. Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the "Spam King" will stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved. "Stanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net Inc. of Richboro, Pa., and Seismic Entertainment Productions Inc. of Rochester, are required by the agreement to send online ads only to people who visit their Web sites. "The government says Wallace used spyware to infiltrate computers, overwhelming them with ads and other programs. Then, he tried to sell programs he claimed would fix the problems. The government said the remedies do not work. "'The commission does believe this is great relief for consumers until the matter is ultimately resolved in the courts,' said Laura Sullivan, a lawyer for the FTC. 'This provides wonderful protection for consumers in the interim ... rest at (among others): http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=FTC%20Spyware _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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