{"id":134,"date":"2006-04-04T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=134"},"modified":"2011-11-19T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T05:09:56","slug":"direct-revenue-llc-being-sued-for-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/direct-revenue-llc-being-sued-for-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Revenue LLC Being Sued for Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, has filed suit against online advertiser Direct Revenue LLC. The suit claims that the company was secretly installing millions of spyware pop-up advertising programs on people&#8217;s computers. Direct Revenue allegedly installed advertising software without user&#8217;s consent or knowledge, with the code wrapped into free applications that consumers could download.<\/p>\n<p>Spitzer seeks a court order stopping Direct Revenue from installing spyware or sending ads through the spyware already on computers. In addition, he seeks financial records related to the company&#8217;s revenue so that appropriate fines can be assessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, has filed suit against online advertiser Direct Revenue LLC. The suit claims that the company was secretly installing millions of spyware pop-up advertising programs on people&#8217;s computers. Direct Revenue allegedly installed advertising software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories","tag-spyware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}