Olypmian medal winner revealed as toolbar scumware king

[Bill]

Speaking of getting the FSC to go after spammers and the toolbar crowd for us...

http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archive...guls_gold.html

"...the way he richly supported himself while training was incredibly unsportsmanlike and probably illegal: Begg-Smith was a key player in a company that infected other peoples' computers with adware a.k.a. spyware.

Canadian-born Begg-Smith reportedly is president of AdsCPM Network (a.k.a. CPM Media Inc.), a firm notorious for using "driveby downloads," security exploits, and other cheap tricks to install spyware (including keyloggers and browser hijackers) on unsuspecting Internet users' computers. "

"AdsCPM.com is currently offline, but an archived version of the site says the company served up 20 million pop-ups per day. Other sites hosted at the same IP address indicate the reach of the company's spyware enterprise. They include two sites infamous for distributing spyware ---FREESCRATCHANDWIN.COM and XZOOMY.COM, as well as one selling pop-up blocking software, kill-pop-ups.com."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaki...037817825.html

http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2...for-australia/

The more I think of it, the more I think a co-ordinated political attack on bulkers spammers and installers would be damn sweet.