The Federal Trade Commission
said the court imposed the fine on Kristy Ross and two companies, Innovative
Marketing and ByteHosting Internet Services, and permanently barred them from
selling computer security software.
The FTC said its probe dated
back to 2008 when it charged Ross and six other defendants with scamming more
than one million consumers into buying software to remove malware supposedly
detected by computer scans.
The FTC charged that the
operation used elaborate and technologically sophisticated Internet ads which
displayed to consumers a "system scan" that detected a host of
malicious software.
Consumers who fell for the
scheme would pay $40 to $60 to clean off the malware.
Under a 2011 settlement, two
other defendants were ordered to give up $8.2 million in ill-gotten gains. Two
others previously settled the charges and the FTC obtained default judgments
against three other defendants..
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