I heard about a social networking tool called Zango and did some research on it. Here’s what I found …
Zango, formerly known as 180solutions and Hotbar, is one of the world’s largest distributors of adware. Last November (2007), Bellevue, Washington-based Zango settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million. The FTC said, “ they used unfair and deceptive methods to download adware and obstruct consumers from removing it, in violation of federal law.”
Source: http://www.redherring.com/Home/23403
[tags]Zango, Facebook, Spyware, Adware, Fortinet[/tags]
3 responses so far ↓
1 Ken Smith // Jan 21, 2008 at 11:43 am
The Fortinet advisory, unfortunately, is pretty misleading on a number of points. For a slightly more in-depth analysis of the issues that Fortinet raises, see my blog posting at:
http://smithkl42.blogspot.com/2008/01/deconstructing-socially-generated.html
Ken Smith
CTO, Zango
2 Alex Liu // Jan 25, 2008 at 1:25 am
Thanks for testing.
Is Zango a good social networking tool?
3 Jerry Leventer // Jan 28, 2008 at 2:41 pm
From what I can tell, Zango is not something I would want to use. There have been some pretty harsh criticisms of it, as you can see on the Red Herring link.
To be fair, you might want to visit the link posted by Ken Smith to hear another side to the argument. you will have to make your own assessment.
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