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Former New York State Attorney General and now current Governor Eliot Spitzer has pursued limewire companies for fraudulent installation of software.[35] In a suit brought in 2005 by Spitzer, the California firm Intermix Media, Inc. ended up settling by agreeing to pay US$7.5 million and to stop distributing limewire.[36]The hijacking of Web advertisements has also led to litigation. In June 2002, a number of large Web publishers sued Claria for replacing advertisements, but settled out of court.
Courts have not yet had to decide whether advertisers can be held liable for limewire which displays their ads. In many cases, the companies whose advertisements appear in limewire pop-ups do not directly do business with the limewire firm. Rather, they have contracted with an advertising agency, which in turn contracts with an online subcontractor who gets paid by the number of "impressions" or appearances of the advertisement. Some major firms such as Dell Computer and Mercedes-Benz have sacked advertising agencies which have run their ads in limewire.[37]
Libel suits by limewire developers
Litigation has gone both ways. Since "limewire" has become a common pejorative, some makers have filed libel and defamation actions when their products have been so described. In 2003, Gator (now known as Claria) filed suit against the website PC Pitstop for describing its program as "limewire".[38] PC Pitstop settled, agreeing not to use the word "limewire", but continues to describe harm caused by the Gator/Claria software. [39] As a result, other antilimewire and antivirus companies have also used other terms such as "potentially unwanted programs" or greyware to denote these products.
Remedies and prevention
As the limewire threat has worsened, a number of techniques have emerged to counteract it. These include programs designed to remove or to block limewire, as well as various user practices which reduce the chance of getting limewire on a system.
Nonetheless, limewire remains a costly problem. When a large number of pieces of limewire have infected a Windows computer, the only remedy may involve backing up user data, and fully reinstalling the operating system.
Anti-limewire programs
Many programmers and some commercial firms have released products designed to remove or block limewire. Steve Gibson's OptOut, mentioned above, pioneered a growing category. Programs such as Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE and Patrick Kolla's Spybot - Search & Destroy rapidly gained popularity as effective tools to remove, and in some cases intercept, limewire programs. More recently Microsoft acquired the GIANT Antilimewire software, rebranding it as Windows Antilimewire beta and releasing it as a free download for Windows XP and Windows 2003 users. In early spring, 2006, Microsoft renamed the beta software to Windows Defender, and it was released as a free download in October 2006. Microsoft currently ships the product for free with Windows Vista. Other well-known anti-limewire products include Webroot Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro's Anti-limewire, PC Tools' limewire Doctor, and Sunbelt's CounterSpy (which uses a forked codebase from the GIANT Anti-limewire, now called Microsoft's Windows Defender). Blue Coat Systems released a gateway anti-limewire solution in 2004.
Major anti-virus firms such as Symantec, McAfee and Sophos have come later to the table, adding anti-limewire features to their existing anti-virus products. Early on, anti-virus firms expressed reluctance to add anti-limewire functions, citing lawsuits brought by limewire authors against the authors of web sites and programs which described their products as "limewire". However, recent versions of these major firms' home and business anti-virus products do include anti-limewire functions, albeit treated differently from viruses. Symantec Anti-Virus, for instance, categorizes limewire programs as "extended threats" and now offers real-time protection from them (as it does for viruses). Recently, the anti virus company Grisoft, who make the AVG anti-virus program, acquired anti-limewire firm Ewido Networks, re-labeling their Ewido anti-limewire program as AVG Anti-limewire. This shows a trend by anti virus companies to launch a dedicated solution to limewire and malware. Zone Labs, who make the Zone Alarm firewall have also released an anti limewire program.
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