Spyware Removal Companies used dirty tactis and actually infect computers to drum up business

Maybe RICO LAWS should be adapted to address this blight on the computing/Internet world.

Guardians of the Public Trust,

I am one of the last people to readily take my boo hoos to the federal government for remedy. However the whole Internet with it unscrupulous practices is just out of hand.

Just the other day, I inadvertently, moved my mouse too! quickly and clicked to quickly and activated instead of deleted a pop-up for a SpyWare removal company. Now I never had any great problems with pop ups before, since I had set my blocker on medium, I did get an occasional here and there, maybe a couple during an hour session.

Since that unfaithful day when I hit the Spyware ad, my computer has gradually day by day, encountered a zillion pop-ups (minute by minute) mostly from the advertising Spyware company and, more alarmingly day by day I can almost registered the degree of shut downs, freezes and misdirected searches that my computer has incurred. I suspect before the week is out my computer will probably crash permanently, considering the exponential rate of interrupting and misdirection that I am now receiving.

What do we call it when the companies that are suppose to provide services to rid us of virus, actually ends up instilling their own virus to infect the computers of unsuspecting users.

Simply this is akin to having exterminators seed your house with millions of roach eggs, only to then later show up on your door steps promising removal and extermination.

The FCC and other communications and business bureaus should look into this practice.I believe that if my claims are validated than nothing less than a class action litigation should be initiated. By the way the company was not a fly by night company either. It is one of the industries leading Spyware removal companies. Oh! how they would make the Mafia proud.

I will send this letter off to the company and to members of the FCC ,Congress, Better Business Bureaus and Attorneys but, I believe the support of industry watchdogs such as yourself will be much more instrumented in helping to curb this dangerous trend.

Phil Ghee

pghee AT hotmail.com (that is If I can still be reached)

p.s. update two day after writing the above my computer did crash and I had to have it serviced.

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Addendum: From an Expert in the field.

There is in fact a whole malware category called "rogue antispyware". Yes, they spam you, they solicit via popup messages, they misbehave. Some of them find fake threats and they extort payment so you'll remove them. Some even *plant* malware. Some are themselves spyware/adware. There are pages/sites devoted to tracking these, e.g. Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware.

However, these are not the same as the valid antispyware programs like Spyware Doctor and Webroot's product. (The legitimate ones generally *remove* the rogues). Do watch out for trickster names like "Spy Doctor" – they'd like you to be confused.

Check PC Magazine for reviews of legitimate antispyware programs, e.g. Nine Ways to Wipe Out Spyware