July 10th, 2006
Zango(180 Solutions) Abusing MySpace Users
By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Take your usual Zango install methods, meaning they don’t let you know adware is about to be dropped on your pc, add in a bunch of funny or “cool” videos and finally a bunch of MySpace users looking for some funny content to put on their pages and what do you have? I don’t know what to call it, but it’s a bad combination, and MySpace profiles are being used to push this crap on more and more computers. Now, not only will they get their software on the kids pc’s, but when the parents pull up their kids MySpace pages to see what they are doing, their computer will be infected as well. Diabolical. (Seriously, how often can you use that word in a day?)
In all cases, I didn’t see one site actually mention the fact that in return for these things, you’d be pimping Zango. I just can’t see how this is right, but then it’s all about the money, yes?
At any rate, the situation is this - set up an affiliate deal with Zango, then systematically create a network of MySpace-themed websites designed to entice users into placing your files onto their MySpace sites. After all, why go to all the trouble of pimping your own vids when you can have random teenagers on MySpace do it for you? Talk about an all time low - an innovative method of distribution, I’ll give you that. But it leaves a sour taste in the mouth, all the same. Source: Vitalsecurity
We Say: As Paperghost says Oh noes. Warn your friends and your children, make sure this “free content” doesn’t get around too much.
Bob Cadle says:
The best and proper thing to do would be to contact Xango (the correct spelling) and let the company know.
I can assure you, although I am not a distributor for Xango, the company is a high class international company and that distributor,if indeed it was one AND NOT SOME ROTTEN *()_*(_ dirty trick subversive hired by a competitor (yes,it happens), then Xango will punish said guilty party will all the mass of capital which they possess, which is considerable.
Many years ago I had a fine and honorable business built up with years of hard work, and this before “the net”. However, because we were (and remain to this very day, twenty years later) the fastest growing private held company in business history (written up in INC, and USA TODAY, etc) the ghouls and goons and insanely jealous competitors pulled every rotten trick you can imagine, even to the extent of secretly purchasing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of our (the company’s) products,taking them to a warehouse, and pouring OUR effective product into THEIR labeled bottles.
Ultimately liars banded together to place a “media hit” on our company, and like ALL lies, people believe what is on TV and make no effort to think rationally, as we were taught forty years ago in my “schooling”….read: learn or get failed, smart off and get the paddle, and all the “non PC” things that somehow turned out a moral and intelligent generation.
The company’s volume fell by ninety percent, and my income the same. So lies and liars destroy fine people,never forget that.
So never think poorly of a company or leap to conclusions,for if there is one common occurance which happens millions of times a day for thousands of years, it’s CONSPIRACIES.
For an excellent example, think High School.
It’s a wonder any of us escaped THAT emotional battleground, for indeed ,isn’t each day fraught with girls conspiring to get “a guy” and vice versa? Right.
Fortunately for me, within two weeks after high school, I was in boot camp and then “one of those Asian wars that slime politicians cause”
I had no chance to dwell on high school.
Here’s one for you young people who hang out here:
“NEVER ASSUME” This is ripped off from Marine Corps slogans.
Bob (older dude)…but wiser.
July 13th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
prying1 says:
It appears that the above commentor has mixed up Xango - A Fruit Juice company - with the Zango mentioned in the article. It does appear that some of the methods used by Zango are questionable at best. In my searching on this outfit I’ve found it also looks like the toolbar Zango offers might be difficult to remove.
September 30th, 2006 at 4:45 am