InternetNews Realtime IT News - Microsoft, Wash. State Sue Over 'Scareware'UPDATED: Those annoying pop-up ads are the target of a flurry of new lawsuits by the state's Attorney General and Microsoft.
UPDATED: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the Attorney-General of Washington State, Rob McKenna, are teaming up to crack down on scareware. The term refers to pop-up ads that often show up behind some Web pages and offer to scan users' PCs, find some errors and direct the users to a Website where they can download software to fix the problems found, for a price.
At a joint press conference today in Seattle, McKenna announced that his office filed an anti-scareware suit in King County Superior Court today against two businesses, Branch Software and AlphaRed, and their product, Registry Cleaner XP.
"We will not tolerate scams to trick consumers into buying software to solve problems that don't exist," he added.
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