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Zango Affiliate Still Luring MySpace Users
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-07-27
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An affiliate who had been posting Zango content on MySpace against both companies' terms of service has switched to using a new domain, despite Zango's public claims that such activity would result in the termination of the affiliate account.
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Vitalsecurity.org has discovered a previously-revealed Zango affiliate still working hard at pushing Zango's adware products as MySpace videos.
A screenshot of the offending site registered to one Mark Arruda has a menu called "Myspace Videos." Launching one without reading the fine print will result in Zango's adware-supported products being installed on one's personal computer.
Arruda had been listed as the registrant of Myspacegraphicalhelp.com, the site where Vitalsecurity's Chris Boyd first caught the Zango videos being served. That site is still serving videos, although the original page containing those videos has been delinked from other pages.
The new site also delivers these videos that carry the Zango affiliate content. Boyd compares and contrasts Zango's public statement on the practice of enticing people to place its content on MySpace, where doing so is a direct violation of the MySpace terms of service (first paragraph from InternetNews.com, second from Boyd):
Stan Monlux, Zango senior director of business development, told internetnews.com they forbid partners from posting Zango content on MySpace profiles. Monlux did admit that some of its partners do violate their Agreement and that Zango detects and deals with them effectively. "We routinely check, and we've built tools that will help us track back the domains from which our applications have been installed," he said.
Either what this guy is doing is wrong, and Zango should have cancelled his account at the time, or they should have refuted everything and thrown it all back in my face. What should not happen, is something where it's made to look like his account has been terminated, only to have him happily carry on installing the Zango Adware across Myspace with his wonderful websites. Is this "detecting and dealing with them effectively"?
Two reports of this behavior in the past two weeks should prompt some type of action. We will have to wait and see if Zango or Rupert Murdoch's lawyers make the next move.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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