Reuters is reporting on Microsoft's victory in it's case against a spammer targetting Windows and Hotmail users.
Among the orders issued by the judge in a summary judgment, Khoshnood and Pointcom were told to "refrain from including the domain names "hottmail.com," "wwwwindows.com," "microsoftc.com," "wwmsn.com," "bcentrals.com" and windowsupdatenow.com,"" according to court documents.
In one spam campaign, e-mail recipients got messages with statements such as "WINDOWS SECURITY WARNING!!" or "A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED ON YOUR COMPUTER. IN ORDER FOR YOUR COMPUTER NOT TO CRASH YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM" in the subject line, Microsoft said in a statement.
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