The Register: Who will rid us of fake error message ads?

The class action is against Bonzi Software in reference to those annoying grey banner ads that imply that there is a problem with your computer.

The complaint alleges:

that Bonzi deceptively and fraudulently commandeered millions of internet users to Bonzi’s commercial websites through dissemination of tens-of-millions of fraudulent internet advertising banners that impersonated computer error messages. The Complaint states that through use of such Fake User interface (“FUI”) dialogs that gave the false appearance of being computer error messages, Bonzi tricked millions of internet users into interrupting the work they were performing to respond to the fraudulent error message, only to unexpectedly find both computer and computer user thus hijacked to defendants’ commercial website.