FTC Busts BlogSpot Spyware Ring

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down three companies that tricked bloggers into placing code on their sites that delivered spyware to user machines. Bloggers who thought they were getting background music for their blogs were actually placing malicious code on their sites, the FTC report, anti-spyware researcher Eric Howes said the companies were responsible for "SearchMiracle and EliteBar, two of the nastiest spyware programs. They were also using rootkit technology to hide files and defeat anti-spyware software." Complaints about BlogSpot blogs being home to spyware started in September 2004, according to researcher here