Go get em, mighty Vole. No one is entitled to move in on YOUR scamming operation!

HB

"The Washington attorney general (AG) referred to the defendants as " aggressive marketers of scareware – useless computer programs that bilk consumers by using pop-up ads to warn about nonexistent, yet urgent-sounding, computer flaws"."

I get messages like those from M$'s OS every week: "StatusClient.exe - Bad Image : The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPBPRO.DLL is not a valid Windows image." Scared the beejeepers out of me and then the OS runs out of memory.

I guess the suit was based on making the message seem to come from the OS rather than the spammer, but, really, should not the whole world be warned about the implications for security of running that other OS? Cigarette packages come with warnings. I think M$ should be required to post pop-ups warning against using their OS about every five minutes.

change a few words..

"aggressive marketers of scareware – useless intelligence that bilk the world by using media to warn about nonexistent, yet urgent-sounding, threats"

the US government?