StopBadware, CDT Complaint to US FTC



The complaint to the FTC is here. The report on is here.

The big issues in this case are two:




6 thoughts on “StopBadware, CDT Complaint to US FTC

  1. The “WHOIS” info pasted above, in the first Comment, shows Name Intelligence, Inc as the **Registrar**; that is, the actual host is Private, and is not reporting itself to WHOIS. Thus, there is no particular connection between “Bellvue, WA” and the Argentine site, other than that the one registered it’s domain via the other, and Name Intelligence permits Private Registration.
    It’s similar to seeing the phone number of a hotel on Caller ID, but not the Room Number of the actual caller.
    I would consider Name Intelligence as a Correspondent or Witness for the complaint. To me (no legal expert!) there is Apparent Intent and actual vandalism (the victim loses the use of his property) so there should be criminal charges.

  2. Phil,

    Are you aware of the damage you’re doing to innocent small businesses because of the really, really slow handling of appeals?

    Google is violating their core principals of 1. speed, and 2. Do no evil, by putting up nasty warnings which presume harmful intent, and then handing you the mess to clean up with your understaffed appeals process.

    Why not just let Google have that resposibility?


  3. You will never get good results trying to shutdown this small affiliate sites because one get closed and hundreds start everyday.

    If you really want to stop badware, then go for the people that are making all the money and paying per install, not the affiliates.

    Take a look here:

    This pay per install industry is the real responsible that many small affiliates distribute badware for just a few cents.

    BTW i guess that many of them are located on the US unlike their affiliates that are from anywhere and maybe some of those foreign affiliates are just kids.

  4. google erronous states that our site is a badware source
    we have check and recheck our site and the only possible source of badware can be the google adsense advertisments.
    if *anyone* can provide us with some insight (google doesnt give much and we still wait for stopbadware to check our site) please do.
    thank you very much

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