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- Pushing Zango on MySpace
- Pushing Zango on MySpacePaperghostPaperghost is on the story, too. He's got a pretty good, richly illustrated, write-up over at Vital Security:http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2006/07/teenagers-used-to-push-zango-on.htmlZango sock puppets infiltrate MySpace.Something tells me that these "teenagers" are acutally Zango wage-slaves who are seeking to push Zango sh**warez on unsuspecting users. The lack of info...
- Tags: MySpace, Zango, Paperghost
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- Top 10 tricks causing spyware epidemic
- Spyware tricks have become increasingly devious, making spyware and adware stick to machines longer, more difficult to remove and sometimes impossible to see with ordinary methods. In the spyware tricks series I wrote about seeing installations with multiple resuscitators, increasing numbers of randomly named files, even randomly named folders. Internet...
- Tags: spyware, Direct-Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
- Spyware downloads .NET
- Spyware downloads .NETNot 65 MB...I think the .NET framework download is somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 MB, not 65...Does that include patches? nt.Right, but read his blog...PaperGhost says in his blog:"65Mb of Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 was downloaded and installed without asking permission, or even indicating that such a...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, Paperghost, spyware
- Discussion threads 2005-03-04
Additional Resources
- Zango's continued bad practices in light of FTC's proposed settlement terms
- Just over two weeks ago, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Zango for the complaint filed earlier this year. Under terms of the settlement, Zango is required to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains and to stop a number of bad practices that have been documented back to...
- Tags: Spyware/adware news
- Blog posts 2006-11-19
- Zango, the FTC, MySpace and You Tube
- This past Friday, the FTC announced a $3 million dollar settlement with Zango, formerly named 180solutions, in a lawsuit charging Zango with unfair and deceptive business practices, among other things. See ZDNet story here with more details. FTC announcement here. Case documents can be downloaded here.As usual Zango refuses...
- Tags: Spyware/adware warnings, Spyware/adware news, Zango
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Is Zango stealing affiliate commissions from adult webmasters?
- It seems that Zango, formerly known as 180solutions, the company we all love to hate, has royally ticked off a bunch of adult webmasters. Paperghost, aka Chris Boyd, has the story, complete with links to forums where the adult webmasters discuss Zango allegedly stealing affiliate commissions. True? I...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- Microsoft gives adware pusher an MVP award
- Update 7-Oct 2:30 PDT: In the Talkback section below, Microsoft MVP Carey Frisch reports:Mr. Paciullos MVP Award has been revoked. Once the MVP program learned and investigated the extent of the connection, they took action today (Oct 7th) to revoke the MVP Award from Mr. Cyril Paciullo. The vital importance...
- Tags: Most Valuable Professional
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
- More disturbing long-tail content from Zango
- SunbeltBLOG asks "Is Zango partnering with a bunch of sickos? " I won't repeat much what's posted there because it's too disgusting, but here's the first part.unitedtoserve2005dotcom redirects to a hard core porn site, searchdotporn-infodotinfo, which offers “totally free porn videos”. These are Zango porn videos — you...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Zango caught in lies about their software on MySpace?
- Zango's videos have been found all over MySpace, along with a number of sites pushing Zango videos to MySpace users without disclosing the presence of Zango. Profiles named Zango were found on MySpace and Zango later admitted an employee created the profiles and said it was a "mistake". It looked...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Pushing Zango - out of MySpace
- Last week I blogged about Pushing Zango on MySpace and linked to Paperghost's blog asking if teenagers are being unwittingly used to push Zango on my space. It looks like Paperghost aka Chris Boyd managed to create a bit of a stir on the subject and now it looks...
- Tags: Zango, MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-07-17
- Meet the Security Bloggers
- Meet the Security BloggersVery relevent info there.......I've noticed the last maybe 3 or 4 months or so, there's a definite trend to go to certain blogs and directly extract information as a source of factual news. I've been fortunate enough to have had it happen to me on a number...
- Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, E-mail, blog, Security Bloggers, security
- Discussion threads 2006-07-14
- 180 Solutions Using Viral Marketing on MySpace
- In the worst sense of viral, Zango has crept on to MySpace. A very simple process is involved. Some MySpace profiles include videos that require you to accept the install of the Zango tool bar to view them. They also encourage MySpacers to install the same videos on their own...
- Tags: Zango, MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
- Spyware news
- My apologies for the lack of blogging recently. Here are a few good places to keep up with the spyware news, sites that I read on a daily basis, SunbeltBLOG, Vitalsecurity, SecurityFix, Ben Edelman and others listed in my blogroll on this page.Last week I was at Tech Ed in...
- Tags: Zango, Hotbar
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Zango gets botnet action
- Things have been quiet on the 180solutions front for a while, but now they are back in the news with Zango adware being pushed by a botnet, discovered and detailed by Paperghost at VitalSecurity, complete with screenshots. The story goes like this. The IRC topic set by the Channel OP...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- 180solutions sponsors Yapbrowser and... child porn?
- My head is swimming and I feel ill. I just read the blogs about 180solutions' latest -- Yapbrowser, installed from 180's servers no less, that directs all search requests to child porn sites. And this from a company that has made countless claims of cleaning up their act....
- Tags: Yapbrowser
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- DirectRevenue's dirty laundry is out of the closet and does it ever stink
- Two days ago DirectRevenue was hit with a lawsuit by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The 76 page Affirmation of Justin Brookman PDF outlined the outrageous practices of DirectRevenue including evidence of their knowledge that the software was being installed without user consent, evidence showing DirectRevenue was closely...
- Tags: DirectRevenue
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- 180solutions responds - questions need answers
- Yesterday I reported on another nonconsensual install of 180solutions that was discovered and blogged by spyware expert Ben Edelman. Some might wonder why the big deal - after all, 180solutions has a long history of illegal forced installations and problematic business practices as documented in the CDT's 91 page complaint...
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- Anti-Spyware Coalition workshop and other news
- Where did the time go? My apologies for the lack of blogging. I've been traveling and without internet access part of the time. I was all set to blog last night and the internet connection went down at the hotel where I'm staying. At any rate, hopefully...
- Tags: spyware, workshop
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- 180solutions responds to CDT complaint - I think?
- Just a few days ago, the Center for Democracy & Technology CDT filed a lengthy, detailed complaint with the Federal Trade Commission FTC about 180's sordid 2 year history of documented installs without notice or consent via exploits, alleged deceptive and unfair business practices, and so on, in 91 pages....
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Anti-Spyware Coalition news
- The Anti-Spyware Coalition has announced the final agenda for the public workshop to be held on February 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. I’m really excited about this workshop, especially since I’m on a panel. The speakers include important folks like Deborah Majoras Platt, the Chairman of the FTC, Susannah...
- Tags: spyware, anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-01-19
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