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It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the WOT Million Download Contest.

Taking first place with his imaginative three-in-one entry is wehaveitall. Ben's enthusiasm and creativity charmed the judges, especially his Top 50 list. Visit Ben's WOT fan page to see the winning entry including the WOT collage (pictured below.) Ben will receive an iPod touch. Congratulations!

The winner of the Lucky Draw was sandnsurf. Mike's blog entry WOT a great idea is an easy-to-understand explanation of how WOT works. We love his comparison of WOT to a shark net off the coast. And being a surfer from Australia, Mike knows about that! Mike will receive an iPod nano. Congratulations!

Thanks to all the participants in the WOT Million Download Contest. You did not make the judges job easy! Look for more ways to win in the near future.

We apologize to those of you who received multiple emails notifying you of our October Inside MyWOT newsletter. We are proud of our newsletter, but one email notification is definitely enough!

Here's what happened: a glitch in the newsletter sending process caused more than one email sending process to run, resulting in multiple emails to some addresses.

The problem has already been fixed and it won't happen again.

If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to the newsletter, you can do that in the Privacy Settings of your profile, http://www.mywot.com/profile/edit. Make sure you hit the Submit button at the bottom of the page.

Thank you to all the folks who kindly notified us of the problem. We hope you will pardon the inconvenience we have caused.

In this edition of Inside MyWOT we celebrate the people who make WOT work - our community and the great minds working behind the scenes. It's our pleasure to announce the winners of the Million Download Contest and share their work with you, plus we tell you WOT's backstory and introduce you to our top Platinum level user, Delta Surfer.

Our partners are also valuable to us, and we are pleased to introduce you to our newest one, TRUSTe. You can also read about some of the quality blogs and forums that share WOT's mission of keeping the web safer for everyone.

Read Inside MyWOT (PDF format)

Interesting piece of news in the Washington post: Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of "scareware" vendors who use fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for worthless computer software.

Quote from Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna: "We won't tolerate the use of alarmist warnings or deceptive 'free scans' to trick consumers into buying software to fix a problem that doesn't even exist. We've repeatedly proven that Internet companies that prey on consumers' anxieties are within our reach."

The lawsuits were filed under Washington's Computer Spyware Act, which punishes individuals who prey on user concerns regarding spyware or other threats. Specifically, the law makes it illegal to misrepresent the extent to which software is required for computer security or privacy, and it provides actual damages or statutory damages of $100,000 per violation, whichever is greater.

Web of Trust is delighted to see Microsoft to take an active role in the fight against Internet scams. The recent Web of Trust video dealt with the same problem. Read the entire story at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/09/microsoft_washingto...

Thanks to all those who entered our WOT Million Download Contest. Our judges are in the process of reviewing the entries and making a decision. We will announce the winner of the iPod touch and the Lucky Draw winner of the iPod nano no later than October 10.