by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Fascinating reading here from the FTC complaint.Highlights:Over 1 million PC users have been scammed by Innovative and its affiliates. At $40 a pop, that’s $40 million in ill-gotten revenue. Forget refunds. According to the FTC, “although some consumers later realize...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Following on the FTC action today against Innovative Marketing, I thought I’d share some internal proprietary research we have on this group. If anyone might think this action isn’t warranted, this is pretty much the proof that the FTC is spot-on. Alex...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
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by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Major news: The FTC is going after Innovative Marketing, which has marketed products like WinFixer and other rogue antispyware programs. These deliberate scams and frauds have been a plague on the internet now for several years. At the request of the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Thorsten Holz and Carsten Willems, our partners in Sunbelt CWSandbox, have collaborated with Konrad Rieck, Patrick Dussel and Pavel Laskov on a paper, “Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior”.The abstract explains it well:Malicious software in form of...
