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Pop-up Ad Spammers Settle FTC Charges

An operation that used a feature called the "Windows Messenger Service," which is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system, to barrage consumers' computers with pop-up ads for the pop-up blocking software they sold has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their marketing methods violated federal laws.

Read the whole story at Federal Trade Commission, August 9, 2004 »

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