FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm 472
An anonymous reader writes "The FTC has shut down D Squared, a company that's been spamming via the Windows Messenger Pop-Up Service. In some cases, ads would pop-up every 10 minutes, and only advertised a $30 product that disabled similar pop-up ads. The FTC is slamming the extortion gauntlet on them. Interestingly, the FTC only caught onto all this because one of their own commissioners was among those getting spammed."
I wonder what their email addresses are... (Score:3, Funny)
2 billion.. hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
2^32, minus subnets and netmasks, minus 10, 127, 192.168, etc...
Okay... (Score:5, Funny)
I gotta know. Who ported cluestick to Windows? :-)
Re:one of their own commissioners... (Score:5, Funny)
How long before linux is affected? (Score:2, Funny)
If you think I'm lying, press ALT+F2, then paste the following into it.
To see if you computer is vulnerable, press ALT+PRINT SCREEN+B at the same time.
Re:These are annoying (Score:2, Funny)
You don't have precious seconds to waste by clicking the preview button, but you're reading Slashdot?
Re:Thats what we get for tolerating advertisements (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, this is a pretty good description of the appearance of most of the bike riders I see these days.
KFG
Re:Thats what we get for tolerating advertisements (Score:4, Funny)
Billboards are not a violation of anyone's property rights. They may be an aesthetic offense, but that is what life in the USA is all about these days, is it not? Looking like a slob is one of our fundamental rights.
My Favorite part... (Score:5, Funny)
If any wants, I can sell them a copy of that database for just $25,000. A brief sample to show I have the goods:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4
Well, I have a list with over 4.2 Billion! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:one of their own commissioners... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Actually it's a windows thing (Score:2, Funny)
You know, you could have turned off the messenger service in the services control panel, even if AOL hadn't already.
Re:My Favorite part... (Score:5, Funny)
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.
{Dark Helmet voice}
192.168.0.1-2-3-4-5 -- what a coincidence, I have that combination on my network.
{/Dark Helmet voice}