Spyware Assassin Shut Down by Feds

The FTC temporarily shut down MaxTheater Inc. makers of Spyware Assassin.

You have seen them. Those annoying pop-up ads claiming to find spyware on your computer and offering to clean it up for you. It is no big surprise to find out that the ad doesn't really find any spyware. It turns out that even if you were infected and shelled out the $29.95 purchase price for the "real" software it would do you no good. Allegedly, Spyware Assassin "finds" nonexistent spyware on clean systems and it doesn't actually clean any spyware existent or not.

Read about it here.