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'Spam King' agrees to limit his online ads

Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the "Spam King" will stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved. Sanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net of Richboro, Pa., and Seismic Entertainment Productions, are required by the agreement to send online ads only to people who visit their Web sites.

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