A man has been jailed for nearly five years in the US for building a network of 400,000 slaved PCs and using it to install adware and send spam
Convicted spammer Jeanson James Ancheta has been jailed for 57 months

Spammer gets five in the slammer

Record sentence for 'arrogant' adware distributor

Written by Iain Thomson

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US cracks multimillion-dollar piracy ring

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