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Company: DirectRevenue LLC
Penalty: $1,500,000
Year: 2007
Date: February 16, 2007
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: DirectRevenue LLC, a large adware distributor, and four of its principals agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used unfair and deceptive methods to download adware onto consumers' computers and then obstruct them from removing it, in violation of federal law. The settlement required DirectRevenue to give up $1.5 million in ill-gotten gains.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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