CSO has the news on an unusual spyware case settlement:
Washington’s attorney general has settled the first case prosecuted under the state’s 2005 Computer Spyware Act.
The settlement announced Monday is with antispyware vendor Secure Computer. The White Plains, N.Y., software company was accused of marketing its product via deceptive spam and pop-up ads, which offered free spyware scans that always detected a problem with the computer that was scanned.
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