Protecting our brand from a global spyware provider
Found on The Mozilla Blog on Wednesday, 01 May 2013
A recent report by Citizen Lab uncovered that commercial spyware produced by Gamma International is designed to trick people into thinking it’s Mozilla Firefox. We’ve sent Gamma a cease and desist letter today demanding that these illegal practices stop immediately.
Gamma’s software is entirely separate, and only uses our brand and trademarks to lie and mislead as one of its methods for avoiding detection and deletion.
Good luck Mozilla. Although I'm not too happy with the path Mozilla picked for Firefox, I still hope they will win against Gamma. Now if Gamma would have only downloaded a single mp3...