Robert Soloway hates Microsoft. Or so it seems. Soloway lost a court battle to the software giant, who accused Soloway of illegal spamming.

“He’s one of the top 10 spammers in the world,” said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company’s Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. “He’s a huge problem for our customers.

According to Brian McWilliams, investigative journalist and author of “Spam Kings“, Soloway is allegedly one of the world’s dirty dozen of top spammers. (antivirus.about.com)

Robert Alan Soloway is the founder of the so-called “Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam,” or SPAMIS, but is said to be one of the Internet’s biggest spammers through his company, Newport Internet Marketing (NIM).

Soloway was charged with using hijacked zombie computers & spoofing to send out millions of spam e-mails since 2003. On 22 July 2008 Robert Soloway was sentenced four years in federal prison, a ruling that sends a message to other spammers and online criminals. (wikipedia.org)