Notorious adware maker DirectRevenue LLC -1 closed shop. The company, which was recently doing business as Best Offers, gave no reason for its sudden closure, which was announced on its Web site. "Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software tool, and an e-mail based support service."

E-mail sent to the Gmail address listed on the company’s Web site was returned as undeliverable.

DirectRevenue was founded in 2002, but it managed to make a lot of people unhappy during the course of its short life. Its software, which was often installed without user consent, would bombard victims with unwanted pop-up ads and was difficult to remove. Hounded by spyware charges, Direct Revenue shuts down

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