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Man Settles Charges of Google AdWord Misuse
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PC World Magazine
 
By PC World Magazine
Published on June 9, 2006
 
Man pays $2000 for allegedly using Microsoft name to trick consumers into buying ineffective antispyware products.
 
A New Hampshire man has agreed to pay $2000 to settle charges that he misused Microsoft's name to trick consumers into buying ineffective antispyware products, using Google's AdWords program.

Antispyware product fails to remove spyware and makes computers less secure

Seth Traub, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the third person to settle a lawsuit filed in January by Microsoft and the Washington State Attorney General's office. The suit alleges that software vendor Secure Computer sold an antispyware product that not only fails to remove spyware as advertised, but actually makes users' computers less secure.

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