180Solutions Has Withdrawn Its Lawsuit Against Zone Labs

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Zone Labs announced that 180Solutions has dropped it’s lawsuit that sought to get them to change how they labeled their Zango and Search Assistant programs. No reason was released by 180, nor was this a settlement.

“From the inception of the suit, we believed it had no merit,” said John Slavitt, general counsel for Check Point Software Technologies, parent company of Zone Labs. “ZoneAlarm alerts are triggered by the behavior of a program, not its name. If the180Solutions software exhibits suspicious behavior, we alert our customers accordingly. We did not make any concessions or reach a settlement after the suit was filed.”

For example, if a customer downloads the 180Solutions’ Zango program today, the following ZoneAlarm alert is shown to the user: “Zango is attempting to monitor user activities on your computer. If allowed it may try to track or log keystrokes (user input), mouse movements/clicks, Web sites visited, and other user behaviors.” Source: Finanzen.net

We Say: Could 180Solutions be giving up? Nah, too much money would be left on the table, so they must have talked to a sensible attorney finally who told them to give it up. Probably not, but whatever reason, it makes it seem like some common sense has slid in behind the scenes amid all the deceptive practices, maybe they had to lay off some lawyers….