Free Music Used as Lure for Spyware
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it was suing a firm for allegedly using the promise of free music downloads to sneak spyware onto unsuspecting victims’ computers.
The agency said that New Hampshire-based Odysseus Marketing tricked consumers into downloading software that then hijacked search results from popular search engines and replaced them with sponsored links. The software was particularly troublesome because it could not be uninstalled “through reasonable means,†the FTC said.
Source: MSNBC.
See also: Zone Alarm Security Suite, Panda, Kaspersky Personal Security Suite.
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