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- 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
- 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
- Pushing Zango on MySpace
- Chris Boyd asked the question yesterday, Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace? It does indeed look like teenagers, and older MySpace users as well, are being used to push Zango and not making a dime for it. But the Zango affiliates and Zango itself must be taking in...
- Tags: MySpace, Zango
- 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
- 180solutions plus Hotbar equals...
- They tied the knot today, that is, 180solution and Hotbar. The new (?) name is Zango. The folks at VitalSecurity think the new entity should have been named ZangoBar. I think it has a nice ring.From the Seattle P-I:The merger is not about cost savings, Baur said, but "about growth...
- Tags: Zango, Hotbar
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- 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' S3 technology broken?
- According to Ben Edelman, the answer is yes. Ben has blogged about another nonconsensual installation of 180's Zango software at an unnamed website. There's a video, too. The install goes something like this - Ben is surfing around and clicks on an ad that redirects him to...
- Tags: Zango, Ben, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
- What does 180solutions have in common with racism, comedy and the long tail?
- Plenty apparently, except racism is never funny in my opinion. Security site CastleCops discovered the Amazing Racist website sponsored by Zango. The Amazing Racist is apparently a comedian of sorts and even goes around wearing a KKK outfit. The website theamazingracist.net says "The Amazing Racist has partnered with Zango...
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
Additional Resources
- Presenting the most pointless website in the world
- Regator, describes itself as giving "a bite of the blogosphere's best". After investigating this startup, from a technical standpoint the website looks quite swish: lots of AJAXy goodness and Web 2.0 features. Unfortunately that's where the goodness ends. This website claims to pick out the...
- Tags: Aggregation, Blog, Web Site, Site, Regator, Goodness, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
- Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do it twice in a six-month period, they may terminate your account. What's more, Comcast...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Top US sites in June 2008
- Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 189,873 1 Google Sites 140,163 2 Yahoo! Sites 140,080 3 Microsoft Sites 119,677 4 AOL LLC 110,841 5 Fox Interactive Media 85,998 6 eBay 72,972 7 Amazon...
- Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Wiki, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Microsoft splits its Platforms
- Microsoft splits its Platformsjohnson leavingFirst of all, this is good news. It's not like he as done a good job running this companies marketing and online business. This is good news. Microsoft is making changes and its for the better. For all your naysayers who like to...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Microsoft Corp., Johnson, rep, Juniper Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOh, its about the *another* Georgia.Is about the ex-commie Georgia and not the Ted Turner Birthplace.Anyways, a ddos attack can be done even for a single person, so there are not a real point to escalate this conflict in a full...
- Tags: Web site development, distributed denial of service, Russian Hackers, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already. Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me. As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Top 10 Web sites by video streams for April 2008
- Video Brand Streams, 000 Viewers, 000 YouTube 4,052,984 73,537 Fox Interactive Media 328,974 20,855 Yahoo! 221,600 22,179 Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network 151,828 6,323 MSN/Windows Live 149,684 9,873 ESPN 125,327 5,477 Disney Online 93,649 7,219 ...
- Tags: Web, Network, Video, Web Site, Video Stream, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Networking, Marketing, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
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