There ought to be a law

Or perhaps there already is a law that makes propagating malicious programming on the web a criminal offense. The latest perpetrators are the folks at TotalSecurity.com. These worthless pukes have been running around sending out their Total Security program. This program is a well-known piece of malicious rubbish that infiltrates computers and begins to tell the owners of those computers that they are infected with malicious programs and viruses. Of course they are, the program's name is Total Security! The program does a fictitious scan of the "infected" computer always finding the same number of viruses, no matter which computer it is scanning and then offers to clean up this mess for an exorbitant fee.

This is nothing short of extortion. These people send nasty programs around to plague your computer so you will buy protection from nasty programs, which they propagated in the first place! The worst thing about this is that these criminals have names and addresses that any child could find. This program comes from TotalSecurity.com, which has to be registered somewhere to be on the web. The name and location of the business can be found easily by plugging the name into a domain merchant's site, such as GoDaddy.com, which then spits out the name of the parent company and its address.

So the question becomes, why are these jokers still in business instead of behind bars? Get on the stick, police forces of the world and lock these miscreants up! How often do you have criminals hand you their names and addresses so easily?