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Snopes Pushing Popup Zango Adware
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-01-29
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Sunbelt Software's Alex Eckelberry has become tired of seeing Fastclick ads popping up on Snopes, pushing an adware-laden product.
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After six months of no response from urban legend collector Snopes, Eckelberry decided to publish his observation about the issue.
"Snopes is pushing adware because it makes them money. And I believe it's a lot of money," he said. "And that's not an urban legend. It's shameful."
The popup in question reads 'Do you want to block Junk Emails?' Installing the adware product adds a lot of potentially unwanted programs and functions to the downloader's computer.
Eckelberry contended this popup in particular appears a lot on Snopes. "Advertisers like Zango don't pay to run ads that don't get a good response," he said.
"A site like Snopes won't waste valuable ad inventory on poorly-paying ads. And I firmly believe that the fact that the ads do well is because of Snopes' credibility."
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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