Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com) Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:51:42 -0400

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( lots of good stuff in the complete press release. Check the whole thing when you have a moment ) " Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced an agreement with the former CEO of a leading internet marketing company responsible for secretly installing adware and spyware on millions of home computers. " Under the agreement, Brad Greenspan, the founder and former CEO of Intermix Media, will pay $750,000 in penalties and disgorgement in connection with an investigation of the conduct of his former company ... " Spitzer also announced today that New York Supreme Court Judge Judith Gische had approved a consent agreement between Intermix and Spitzer's office requiring Intermix to pay $7.5 million in penalties and disgorgement, and accept a ban on the distribution of adware programs in the future..... http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/oct/oct20a_05.html. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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