FTC will use money from the settlement to reimburse customers who purchased software from the defendants. Marc D’Souza was one of the key participants in a group of businesses that delivered online advertisements falsely claiming that the viewers’ computers were infected with malicious software. The defendants sold more than 1 million software products, with names such as Winfixer, Drive Cleaner and Antivirus XP, to remove the malware the bogus scans had supposedly detected, the FTC said. The court had ordered a halt to the “massive scheme” in December 2008.”]
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