Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Feds seize $15m from scareware monger's Swiss account • The Register

Feds seize $15m from scareware monger's Swiss account • The Register:

Last year, the US Attorney's office in Chicago accused Jain of selling more than $100m worth of rogue antivirus software.

The programs carried titles such as WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, and ErrorSafe and sold for $30 to $70 for each copy. The US citizen and former resident of Mountain View, California, was believed to have fled to Ukraine, authorities said at the time.