Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Purveyors

ronjor · Sep 29, 2008

Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of "scareware" purveyors, scam artists who use fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for worthless computer security software.

In a separate action, Microsoft filed five "John Doe" lawsuits to learn the identities of individuals responsible for marketing other scareware products, including such titles as Antivirus 2009, Malwarecore, WinDefender, WinSpywareProtect and XPDefender. Microsoft also amended two complaints filed earlier to unmask those running SMP Soft LLC, a Delaware corporation that markets a scareware product called Scan & Repair Utilities.
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Meriadoc · Sep 29, 2008

That's good news, this is a big problem and a blight to unsuspecting users.

Dark Shadow · Sep 29, 2008

Great News Ha Ha

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