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.
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