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FTC settles with Enternet Media for $2 million

FTC settles with Enternet Media for $2 millionMessage has been deleted.

Tags: Enternet Media, FTC

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

FTC settles with Enternet Media for $2 million

The Federal Trade Commission announced today their settlement with Enternet Media for $2 million for putting spyware on users' computers.Under a stipulated final judgment and order, the defendants are permanently prohibited from interfering with a consumer’s computer use, including but not limited to distributing software code that tracks consumers’ Internet...

Tags: Web browser, Enternet Media

Blog posts 2006-09-06

Criminal charges filed against spyware company Enternet Media

Criminal charges filed against spyware company Enternet MediaI got another one for yaI thought Classmates.com was a decent site..... up until today when I downloaded Spyware Doctor. I found that if you go to a page where thier ad is, a file goes into your temporary internet files. This file,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Criminal Charges, Enternet Media, spyware company, spyware

Discussion threads 2006-03-31

Criminal charges filed against spyware company Enternet Media

I just found this piece at LAVoice.org -- the office of LA City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, has filed criminal charges against three officers of Enternet Media for distributing spyware to 18 million computers! It is the first criminal spyware case filed in the state of California. The charges include...

Tags: spyware, Enternet Media

Blog posts 2006-03-31

More Enternet Media, their deceptive practices continue

More Enternet Media, their deceptive practices continueA pokapoka79...Very interesting...! :)NOT!!!!!!A pokapoka79...Very interesting...! :)NOT!!!!!!Lookoutsoft.net how great it really is.I love lookoutsoft.net, they have so many games. Also once you install the annoying adaware programs that are clearly stated in the EULA they don't do any harm for all the othergames that...

Tags: Games, NOT!!!!!, Enternet Media, Very Interesting, game

Discussion threads 2005-11-15

More Enternet Media, their deceptive practices continue

Last week the FTC announced their complaint against Enternet Media for distributing spyware. The charges include using deceptive installation practices, deceptive representations of software code, unfair installation of software code, furnishing to others code that interferes with consumers' use of their computers and failure to disclose presence and nature...

Tags: Enternet Media

Blog posts 2005-11-14

FTC busts Enternet Media for spyware

FTC busts Enternet Media for spywareBUSTED!One down, a couple of dozen to go . . .Hooray!Can't tell you how many times I've had to delete the Elitebar from customers' computers.Hooray!Finally! That toolbar was the cause of soooo much headaches for us a while ago, I am glad they are...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Enternet Media, Hooray, FTC, spyware

Discussion threads 2005-11-10

FTC busts Enternet Media for spyware

It's true! I reported last week that a user at Spyware Warrior's forum wrote about what looked like a raid on Enternet Media's offices. Now the FTC has announced today their complaint against Enternet Media for spreading spyware by unfair and deceptive practices. The FTC documents can be...

Tags: FTC, Enternet Media

Blog posts 2005-11-10

Another fallen spyware pusher?

A user at Spyware Warrior forums posted an unconfimed report on an apparent raid of Enternet Media's offices in Woodland Hills, California. This is my first time on anything like this, but I am compelled to write after doing research on Enternet Media Inc. I found out what they are...

Tags: spyware, Enternet Media

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Additional Resources

News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Top 10 tricks causing spyware epidemic

Spyware tricks have become increasingly devious, making spyware and adware stick to machines longer, more difficult to remove and sometimes impossible to see with ordinary methods. In the spyware tricks series I wrote about seeing installations with multiple resuscitators, increasing numbers of randomly named files, even randomly named folders. Internet...

Tags: spyware, Direct-Revenue

Blog posts 2005-12-20

Top 10 rogue anti-spyware

What is rogue anti-spyware? Rogue anti-spyware programs are defined by spyware and anti-spyware expert Eric Howes on the Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products and Sites page. "Rogue/Suspect" means that these products are of unknown, questionable, or dubious value as anti-spyware protection. Some of the products listed on this page simply...

Tags: anti-spyware

Blog posts 2005-12-19

Rootkits galore: part I

If anything good has come from the Sony DRM rootkit debacle, it's an increased awareness of the peril of rootkits. How many people knew what a rootkit was? Or heard of a rootkit? Outside of security circles, not many. If you're still not sure what a rootkit is,...

Tags: rootkit

Blog posts 2005-11-18