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- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+192"Second, Call your congressman or senator."
NO! They'll just react negatively, say the internets are super bad, and clog up my tubes! - verifex, on 10/20/2007, -2/+179Who the hell are the Zango people, and why do they still exist? After it was determined they were spyware vendors and hijacking peoples PC's they should've been sued out of business. What the hell do they still exist for?
- malorkus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+151The real question is why the hell is a major company like WB using them to market to children? They must be insane or stupid, or both.
- noisey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+140The "I'm over 18" checkbox was pre-checked. What a bunch of crap. This is a real issue.
- gasmonso, on 10/12/2007, -12/+135Porn ain't so bad. Hell it got me where I am today!
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LA County Prison - BadassCheese, on 10/20/2007, -2/+103These are some ***** up people to steer children towards porn.
- brsly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+97Anytime you want to make a problem super bad, just call your congressman or senator.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+96Yeah, they still exist alright. But the sad part is that this story was also submitted 76 days ago and didn't even make it to the front page, so clearly, this isn't anything that's recently occured. At least now this story should get enough coverage to shut those pedaphiles down...
Previous Story: http://digg.com/movies/Warner_Brothers_Promotes_Adware_to_Kids - cwalk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+87Warner Bang Bros anyone?
- malorkus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72Does it matter who created it? Warner Bros' website for kids is marketing Adware/Spyware to children, made by a company that 1) States in its terms of use that it will serve adult ads and 2) is so irresponsible or immoral that it bundled child pornography in its grab bag of crap. Why would you defend these bastards?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+69POKER CHIPS CLOG MY TUBES!
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55The previous one didn't mention porn.
- aquafinality, on 10/12/2007, -11/+63this is completely incorrect - zango were *not* responsible for "creating" the kiddy porn browser, it was made by a russian group called yapbrowser. zango made the stupid mistake of making the yap people an affiliate. more here:
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2006/04/yapbrowser-serves-up-zango-andchild.html
nor does zango adware *automatically redirect to kiddy porn* - again, that was yapbrowser. Zango just serves up lots of annoying adverts.
if you really want to hurt zango, consider digging the below submission, where an affiliate of theirs (found pushing their adware on myspace) has been found pushing their adware on myspace again....despite the fact that you would reasonably assume his account had been cancelled. get the below to the frontpage instead, and you'll hurt them more in the long run.
http://digg.com/security/Zango_Myspace_partner_still_pushing_their_videos_in_Myspace - altosaxon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46And the government thinks that us pirates are the worst thing on the internet.
- otaking, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Lola "Lolita" Bunny and Daffy *****?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43thats just *****.
they should NOT be distributing spyware to begin with, and certainly not aiming spyware which has in the past taken people to porn, at kids.
i love my porn, but it's not for children. - otaking, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Imagine being a kid. You're outside playing and you see your neighbor got a new toy, a big blue ball. You ask him where he got it and he won't tell you. Thus, since you know of "google", you decide to google the term "blue balls" in hope that you can find where the neighbor got his from. and then...POW! ZANGO POPS UP THE PORN.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39marked as ***** in the head.
zango partenered with a russian mob who sent them to kiddie porn. i can't believe they aren't doing jail time for it, let alone are still in business. - dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Porn usually helps me unclog my tubes.
- selkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I downloaded the binary from the URL: http://downloads.zango.com/ZangoStubs/142456/zangosetup.exe
It's been packed with UPX, probably to slip past a few other A/V detection engines. Here are the results from different scanners:
AntiVir Found Adware-Spyware/180Solutions.AM.2 adware
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found Generic.NPN
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found Adware.Zango
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
Fortinet Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.180Solutions.am
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found W32/180Solutions.CM
UNA Found nothing
VirusBuster Found Adware.180Solutions.AS
VBA32 Found AdWare.Win32.180Solutions.am - imyayo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30I thought the cartoons were enough.
- malorkus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26That brings up the question of what is an adult search. Have you ever gone to Google Sets and tried looking for terms "blonde" and "brunette" ? Here's what you get back:
http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=blonde&q2=brunette&q3=&q4=&q5=&btn=Small+Set+%2815+items+or+fewer%29 - cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26you sir win some kind of award for today, and whats even sadder is knowing the referanced porn. but who doesnt know of them?
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Yosemite Sanchez
- PunchMeIBleed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23WTF
- aquafinality, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"Does it matter who created it? Warner Bros' website for kids is marketing Adware/Spyware to children, made by a company that 1) States in its terms of use that it will serve adult ads and 2) is so irresponsible or immoral that it bundled child pornography in its grab bag of crap. Why would you defend these bastards?"
you're missing the point - nobody is "defending" them. however, thats no excuse for getting completely incorrect facts out to the masses, because all that will happen is Zango will use those incorrect statements as defence - "Look what they're saying about us now" - and completely ignore the GENUINE findings and research. In the long run, this just damages the efforts of people who spend a lot of time researching companies like this. - malorkus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Ok, I shouldn't have accused you of defending them, but I don't see how what I wrote is all that incorrect-- the description says that "180 Solutions' adware/spyware has been observed to automatically browse to child porn websites when installed". Your argument is that they didn't make the browser, just bundled it with their own stuff. I don't see a significant difference in the end result. Either way their "product" leads to the browser, no? Maybe you'd argue that they got rid of it after being told about it, but do you really trust them to suddenly check their affiliates much more carefully now, or are they just after a fast buck no matter what? Spyware makers are scum even without the added disgrace of this particular incident, and a major corp like WB shouldn't be directing kids to them with a cartoon robot and an "I am over 18" checkbox pre-checked for them. That in and of itself is worthy of outrage, don't you think?
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14thing is, the porn it's bringing up is kiddy porn. i dont think that kinda porn is something you wanna have popping up anywhere.
- akuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13While I don't think that WB is either implicitly or explicitly promoting porn, kiddie or otherwise, it is a extreme scum-bag move on their part to have kids download the zango spyware with the lure of "100s of Games!"
Dugg just so this might get enough publicity for WB to end their relationship with zango. - selkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Actually http://virusscan.jotti.org/
:) - kurupt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I work in the security sector so, hats off to utilizing http://virustotal.com :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11as long as its not their daughters and its making large corporations money who in the end pay them off then the government dosent give a flying *****.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Who said it was unrestricted, ass wipe. That scenario could easily happen while you were standing right behind you child. Oh, but you are probably still a child yourself and certainly have none or your own, so you wouldn't know that.
- therayven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You would think that, but how likely is it that a spyware company that used to serve up child porn (albeit through an affiliate's spyware package) would actually abide by its own EULA? I just sent a complaint to WB using their Customer Service form on the site. Hopefully they'll get the picture, and if not, they're going to get slammed.
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10oh yeah, thank goodness
'mommy, what's that man doing to that kid?'
'hmm? what are you looking a-OH MY ***** WHAT IS THIS?' - malorkus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well, I wouldn't worry about the author of the blog entry. It wasn't me, but the blog is run by the guy who runs the Portal of Evil family of websites. Those guys get legal threats and piss people off all the time and don't seem to get fazed by it. I think he would consider it a badge of honor to get sued by a scummy spyware company.
- chess007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Come on, ppl... 10 bucks says they are completely clueless about this, as most management people are and Zango totally pitched their product without mentioning anything about child pr0n. sheesh"
Clueless is not an excuse. Its the onus of a business to know exactly who they are partnering with. - smee, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12wouldn't this be crazy illegal as outlined by the bill in http://www.digg.com/tech_news/USA_outlaws_Goatse_links_Internet_free_speech_threatened ?
- aquafinality, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"the description says that "180 Solutions' adware/spyware has been observed to automatically browse to child porn websites when installed". Your argument is that they didn't make the browser, just bundled it with their own stuff. I don't see a significant difference in the end result. Either way their "product" leads to the browser, no?"
nope - its a big difference between "180 Solutions' adware/spyware has been observed to automatically browse to child porn websites when installed" and "180 solutions adware was bundled with a web-browser (as a seperate, stand alone product) and when the web-browser was used, the browser redirected you to ua pr0n". the browser did this regardless of whether or not the 180 solutions adware was on board. adware companies are highly litigious where incorrect information is concerned and this is the kind of thing that could result in legal letters galore for the person who wrote the blog entry. i'm all for them being called to account for their past actions, but we need to make sure its done the right way or it'll just mean an easy way out for them in the long run. - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Can't you at least use the 'reply' button?
- fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Even if you uncheck the box saying you are over 18 and click submit it still lets you download the software.
- aquafinality, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"I'm not sure if I get this... are they redirecting kids to kiddie porn sites? or was that something they did in the past and are now redirecting to adult porn sites."
Zango works by having people sign up to their program as an "affiliate" - these affiliates are typically webmasters who run sites that provide content. zango provide movies, animations, games etc - to use those media items, you have to install their adware first. the problem is that people have criticised zangos affiliate network because they always seem to be getting scammed by hackers, rogue webmasters and lord knows who else.
zango have a long history of messed up affiliates:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/elh/180-summ.htm
yapbrowser is the web-browser that redirected the user to kiddy pr0n - they were a zango affiliate, till the story went mainstream and then zango pulled their adware from the yapbrowser bundle. - macatak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10at least they aren't marketing kiddie porn to adults.
- Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Dugg. I'm sure this is going to get some media attention beyond Digg now.
- MobbyG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9A Bran muffin should clear that right up! Oh.. with raisins and prune juice!
- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10This is the type of stuff that makes the Internet look bad. Warner Bros should be fined $10 million dollars. Maybe this will teach them a lesson and check who they hire for future projects.
- ki85squared, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Clarification: I found the same advertisement page after clicking on the Scooby-Doo contest button. *Slaps self for only skimming article* Either way... It's not a good thing.
- naisanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Contact link.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/main/help/customer_service.jsp
this is *****-believable - knupso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anyway I just wanted to say that man am I glad I'm not in Arizona
I agree with what you are saying, but by adding that line in he will just delete your message. If you can't vote for him or against him he doesn't give a ***** about you.
Sad but true - blubolls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5unbelievable. why isn't some authority doing something about the garbage on the internet. please don't tell me somebody IS doing something. i don't believe there is.
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