Anti-Spyware Firm Taken To Legal Task

Published 28th January 2006

Spyware and Anti-Spyware. Two names that clearly define what they are. Well, not really! MicroWorld has been continuously exposing many purportedly anti-spyware, anti-adware and computer fixing programs that actually work as adwares, spywares and spammers themselves and can even steal user’s confidential personal information. They discreetly employ numerous other nefarious and deceptive marketing practices too, causing severe system malfunction and slowdown.

Two of the most recent such dubious programs reported by MicroWorld labs are Spywarestrike and ErrorSafe. Now the report that Microsoft Corporation and Washington's Attorney General Rob McKenna have filed law suits against Secure Computer LLC of New York, on the firm’s anti-spyware software ‘Spyware Cleaner’, is a welcome news for fighters of such malice around the globe.

This is the first lawsuit under Washington states’s 2005 Computer Spyware Act. Apart from this act, the company has also been charged for deceptive marketing, violation of commercial electronics, Mail and Antispam acts. Punishments for these can run to over $100,000 in penalty.

Spyware Cleaner charges you $49.95 for a fully-working version. Instead of removing spyware, it goes about manipulating the windows settings on the computer apart from pestering you with innumerable pop-ups. The law suit claims that the software’s users get emails pretending to come from MSN Member Services with the subject line "Special Security Alert for MSN Members". Naturally, Microsoft's suit gives importance to trademark issues, stating the firm had suggested that Microsoft had endorsed the product.

MicroWorld solutions are highly intelligent and extremely effective in finding out and destroying spyware, adware and such dubious software. Its products eScan and MailScan have a very large database of such malicious programs. Apart from getting updated every hour, they block all programs that look suspicious in its purpose, while informing you of the same. We urge our users to update their software regularly in order to thwart threats of this nature. In case you are already infected with such malware, you can download our free virus and spyware scanning toolkit ‘MWAV’ from our website to search and remove the same.




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