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Wave bye to Zango


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DragonMaster Jay

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:) Buh-Bye Zango.

Zango, the adware distributor that was fined $3 million by the Federal Trade Commission in 2006 for sneaking software on people's PCs, has closed its doors.

Zango's former chief technology officer blamed the company's demise on several factors, but at the top of the list were the very practices that got it in hot water with the FTC -- and with security analysts who had labeled the company's software spyware.


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Yes, their days were numbered long before this. The good old days of simple adware. Glad they are officialy gone
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Thank goodness they are gone, indeed!
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Wow, thank God!
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I'm not even going to bother wasting my energy waving goodbye at them... :)
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I've lost count of the times I've run Spybot S&D and had a Zango ad there somewhere.. Glad they're finally gone.
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Ha ha, they mutated in to Pinball Corp. (as some say. A rumor...)
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:)
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