A U.S. District Court has temporarily halted the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger spyware. The move comes at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, which claims the software violates the FTC Act. RemoteSpy is made by CyberSpy Software.

The FTC said that the company has violated the FTC Act by selling spy software that can be deployed remotely by someone other than the owner or authorized user of a computer. The FTC also claims CyberSpy unfairly collected and stored personal information gathered with RemoteSpy.

The Commission was granted a temporary restraining order halting the sale of RemoteSpy while its case is pending, to permanently ban the sale of RemoteSpy, and require CyberSpy to pay restitution for any injury to consumers resulting from its violations of the FTC Act.

The FTC's complaint is against a bloke called Tracer R. Spence, the registered agent and manager of CyberSpy.  It is not clear if it is a real name or not.

Check it out here.