GOSHEN, N.Y. (AP) - Opening arguments were held Wednesday in the case of the young Albany man accused of killing his father with an ax and injuring his mother. Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Porco is accused of killing his father, Peter Porco, in his parents' suburban Albany home in 2004.
Porco has said he was in his college dormitory at the University of Rochester at the time.
A prosecutor today said Peter Porco had found that Christopher had forged his name to take out a 31-thousand dollar loan and buy a Jeep. Peter Porco was threatening to file charges.
The defense attorney said Christopher's mother was too injured after the attacks to be able to identify her husband's killer. Police have said she nodded when they mentioned Christopher's name.
The spyware scourge is only getting worse. Worried about angry consumers and legal troubles such as those facing Direct Revenue, some spyware companies are changing their ways -- for example, by asking computer users more clearly whether they understand they will receive pop-up ads. But new and more nefarious online advertising outfits are cropping up, many of them based overseas, says C. David Moll, chief executive of Webroot Software Inc., a Boulder (Colo.) company that makes programs to fight spyware. "Trench warfare, that is spyware today," Moll says. .