Spyware Slayer penalized for breach of spyware and consumer-protection laws

Thursday, 30 November 2006, 12:09 AM EST

The sellers of the Spyware Slayer antispyware program have agreed to pay $300,000 in fines to settle charges that they violated Washington State spyware and consumer protection laws.

Both the charges and the settlement were filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, said Washington State Assistant Attorney General Katherine Tassi.

At Computerworld.

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