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Zango says its scummy hands are clean

by Trench on January 10th, 2008

Zango strikes back over reported Facebook hack:
Scummy spyware company Zango denies that it’s scummy spyware programs were being passed along through the Facebook app ‘Secret Crush’.

In the end, Fortinet is charging that Secret Crush merely “directed [users] to an external Web site inviting them to download applications such as [Zango’s], which allows for pop-up advertising,” to quote Chris Boyd, aka PaperGhost, who also blogged on the confusion last night.

To that end, Zango representatives said that once a user was sent to the aforementioned Web site after downloading Secret Crush, they were presented with a legitimate end user licensing agreement that informed them of all of the intricacies of its adware programs.

Oh yeah, that makes it so much better.

Spyware manufacturers are still scummy.

But again people, don’t download every damn thing that someone offers you, use a secure browser (not IE), clear the cache out of your browser every once in a while, and learn how to scan your system for spyware. I recommend Spybot Search and Destroy.

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