{"id":417,"date":"2006-05-05T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=417"},"modified":"2006-05-05T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T15:43:30","slug":"feds-shutter-spyware-ring-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/feds-shutter-spyware-ring-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds shutter spyware ring &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Feds+shutter+spyware+operations\/2100-7348_3-6068794.html?tag=alert\">Feds shutter spyware ring | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up its first major spyware lawsuit with a $4 million judgment against spam king-turned-spyware master Sanford Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered Wallace and his company, Smartbot.net, to give up $4,089,500 in ill-gotten gains, the agency said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got what we believe is a judgment for the full amount of disgorgement&#8211;the amount of money we believe he took in through the unfair distribution of spyware,&#8221; Rick Quarefima, the assistant director in the FTC&#8217;s division of advertising practices, said in an interview. The actual judgment was passed in late March, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds shutter spyware ring | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up its first major spyware lawsuit with a $4 million judgment against spam king-turned-spyware master Sanford Wallace. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered Wallace and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,14,30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-industry","category-spyware","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}