kaled - 11:40 pm on Sep 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

the only thing they would accomplish by getting involved would be to hurt small to medium sized web business.

If law enforcement agencies were instructed to hunt down the perpetrators (by following the money where appropriate) there should be no downside for any legitimate businesses - in fact, by making the web safer, business may even improve.

Alternatively, since Google seems to filter out the worst of these adverts pretty well one way or another, perhaps others could do the same if a sword were hung above their heads. (That said, I do wonder about some of the registry cleaners, etc. I've seen Google advertise!)

Kaled.