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NEW YORK Brad Greenspan, former CEO of Intermix Media, has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine to settle a spyware suit brought by the New York State attorney general’s office.
The agreement between Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office and Greenspan includes an admission that, under his direction, Intermix purposely intentionally informing consumers that it bundled adware with free Intermix software downloads by burying disclosure in a license agreement. The settlement also states that Intermix intentionally made the advertising programs difficult for users to detect and uninstall.
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