There could be additional law suits following. He has obviously broken the copyright laws as that is Microsoft's registered modus operandi.

Doesn't every windows system have some errors in the registry. I guess calling them critical was deceiving but an alert that said you have errors in your registry would, I assume, be legal.

However in relation to the fine while it is lower than I would like at least it isn't like spammers where you get fined an d still make a profit

fleeced "hundreds" (eg. 300) x $30 = $9,000

$9,000 - $25,000 = -$16,000

But I guess it depends on what 100s mean and also if that was the total number 'fleeced'

Woman downloads a few songs and does not remove the seeds from the shared directory, may or may not have actually provided downloads 220,000.00 USD, this scumbag fleeces many out of real money and 25,000.00. Good that AmeriKa has the old priorities .....

"Your system is insecure and may crash or destroy your data without warning."

Small print: Not because of a specific fault, just because your OS is pish...

We had to ban this kind of protocol entering our network years ago when we started getting spam net send messages offering us all the chance of getting cheap degrees. Was a bit funny because the spam was being sent to a university network :)

I knew this would bring out the anti-Windows trolls though, have you chumps any idea how tiresome you all are?

sounds like something Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons would use. In fact, wasn't he once "Lionel Hutz aka Miguel Sanchez aka Dr Nguyen van Phuoc"?

I couldn't agree more, especially with the last line.

At least your comment complaining about it got published. Mine got censored.

It's amazing that 70 years after the "war of the worlds" radio show, specifically designed to point out to people that they can't always believe what the electronic box in the corner of the room says, people still believe anything electronics tells them.

Also, I wonder how he was using 'net send', not a windows only command, it started off life in OS/2 I seem to remember. (I might of made that up too...)