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November 06, 2006
Internet adware firm in $3 million settlement
An Internet advertising firm called Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators said on Friday.
As part of the settlement, Zango must give consumers a way to remove disruptive adware and is barred from future downloads of its adware without consumers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.
‘Consumers' computers belong to them, and they shouldn't have to accept any content they don't want,’ FTC consumer protection chief Lydia Parnes said in a statement.
The FTC said the Zango's adware was distributed by affiliates who often offered consumers free content and software, such as screensavers, peer-to-peer file sharing software, games, and utilities, without disclosing that downloading them would result in installation of the adware.
In other cases, Zango's distributors exploited security vulnerabilities in Web browsers to install the adware, the FTC said.
The FTC said Bellevue, Wash.-based Zango deliberately made the adware hard to find and remove, and even installed code on consumers' computers enabling the adware to be secretly reinstalled.
Zango, formerly named 180solutions Inc., accepted some blame for the problems in a statement. It did not admit any legal violations, but said it had relied too heavily on third-party affiliates.
‘Unfortunately, this allowed deceptive third parties to exploit our system to the detriment of consumers, our advertisers and our publishing partners,’ Zango said.
‘We deeply regret and apologize for the resulting negative impact,’ Zango chief executive Keith Smith said in the statement published on the company's Web site.
Zango said it has put new software and systems in place to more closely monitor its adware and prevent it from being downloaded on computers without users' permission.
All consumers who download Zango's desktop advertising software now see a ‘fully and conspicuously disclosed, plain-language’ notice, it said.
Source: Reuters
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