"If consumers choose to receive pop-up ads, so be it. But it violates federal law to secretly install software that forces consumers to get pop-ups that disrupt their computer use."

The company will now have to pay the US government the $3m fine, for what the FTC describes as "ill-gotten gains", and it is barred from installing adware without computer users' knowledge and prior consent.

I doubt this will make much difference but it's good news.

Kaled.