The Skinny On Warner Bros, Zango & Porn

Well it seems an article posted on digg incorrectly stated some facts in the relationship with Zango and porn. As it turns out (if you followed this, you're aware), Zango was not distributing porn but their association with YapBrowser certainly didn't help matters. Paperghost gives the lowdown on the facts.

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Warner Bros. Drop Zango Over Porn

Well hot on the heels of Zango being exposed for advising affiliates on how to insert their software onto MySpace, comes great news!!

Warner Bros. is dumping Zango as an adware vendor!!

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Zango:Busted Advising Affiliates On MySpace

Another chapter, this the latest in a series of amazing articles chronicling just how Zango pushes their software on MySpace.

But this time we have a confirmed, (by Zango)legit email to one of thier affiliates on how to proceed and suggestions on how much to pay and how to link to other Zango sites. Things like moving gifs because according to the email, 'people love that sh*t". And also mentioning adding in a karate guy doing flips, because it turns out that it's 'wayyyy more profitable'

Here is a snippet from the email:
"Zango is fairly new with MySpace sites and it took me some time to see what works and what doesn't." "Put one of our videos on to your MySpace profiles and all of your friends will see it" ...more profitably, *go to a bunch of your friends* who have popular profiles and pay them (it's up to you so much. One of my partners said 5$..maybe offer to split the money with them?) to put a Zango video into their profile through your site. This will give you hundreds of extra installs a day (this probably works even better than having them on your actual site).

So for all the posturing Zango has been doing you can only imagine how much this is going to twist the Zango PR guys shorts. And I bet he thought he was going to have the weekend off too.

Guess again scum, because if there is one thing we all know is that Paperghost never takes time off. And is always honing his killer moves against adware bad guys.

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QuickLink Updates

Got a few things happening last day or so:
Bots Invade MySpace
F-Secure Finds Exploits At Social Engineering Sites

Recent Testbox Infestation & Clean Up

Zango Bait & Switch

Zango once again gets capped in another drive-by 'zealot' attack. At least they would lead you to believe it's some sort of vendetta.

Anyone with half a brain could see right through all their excuses and double speak. Read More Here

New Version WinPatrol v10.0.3 [July 21]

BillP continues to improve upon Scotty's abilities to ensure users are safe, offering another version with some bug fixes and a requested feature. Read More Here

Zango + Teen Site = Pr0n

Well it seems that once again, Zango, our favorite provider of adware found in some amazingly perverse content, has been exposed by Paperghost.

They really should just add him to the payroll, he does more to regulate their affiliates that the guy who is supposed to be doing it for them. Read More Here

New Rogue? ProtectionBar

Looks like this app is one in the same as the others in the SmithFraud family. Panda claims to have found it. Read More Here

Another Adware Vendor Using MySpace

Still yet another case of an adware company using MySpace to spread its bundles of 'joy'. This is the second company in two weeks caught doing this. Lets hope MySpace gets on the ball and tries to do something about it. Until then, MySpace users beware.

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More Zango & MySpace Shenanigans

Well after getting some negative press back in May, the newly formed but still-doing-business-as-usual 180Solutions-cum Zango is once again duping users on MySpace.

See, you really can't change the spots on a leopard. Or is that the stripes on a zebra? Regardless, read more here

New Rogue: SpyHeal

This rogue is very new and so far no users have claimed to be infected by it, but give it time, they will begin to popup by weekends end I'm sure. I even took the time to add a comment as a reviewer of the app for SiteAdvisor. Read More Here

Infection Removal Tools Updated

Several specialty tools were updated today with new
variants and better scanning and fixing:

• SmithFraud


• Vundo


• Haxdoor (This fix is too complicated for posting, advise to post in HijackThis! forum )
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CEXX Forums Return To The Fight

I am returning to a forum where I originally began my interest in helping others remove malware. They had been over run with spammers and all but abandoned. CEXX forums is now undergoing a revival. Read More Here

Malware Posing As MS WGA File

Malware writers craft fake files imitating MS WGA to trick users and load a bundle of junk wares. MS MVPs are franticly gathering info to spread the word and submitting files to malware vendors to be added to databases. Read More Here

New Version WinPatrol v10 Free

WinPatrol keeps on improving and delivering one of the best system monitoring applications on the Net. PLUS users get even greater control over any system changes and can find out when files were created, monitor hidden files and more!! Read More Here

Webhelper Back With A Vengance

Well, it didn't take Patrick long, but he's up with a
new Net address:
http://www.webhelper4u.net/

And he now has a page devoted to all of DollarRevenue's Net activities to expose them even more for the lowlife scumbags they are.
DollarRevenue Activity Page

New Rogue: Adwarefinder (or Adware Finder)

Latest rogue shows not much in way of creativity, just claims that it destroys spyware but with it's affiliation with known bundlers of malware, it's highly unlike to do much of anything useful.
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New Vundo Variant, Tool Updated

The latest variant sometimes carries a rootkit in it, but the tool seems to catch the ones that do not. This new variant also hides when using HijackThis, so users need to rename the tool to trick the malware. Read More Here

Related Link

MS, WGA & You

Lots of talk about the latest from MS, their Windows Genuine Advantage and its notification tool. Most of the talk is about how to disable the notification tool.

We have a couple of threads in the forum, one here that talks about the many ways to do just that. And another one here which has links relating to the implementation of the tool over all. Don't forget to take the poll in the second link.

Related links:
How Windows Product Activation Works

Special Fix Thread In Forum

I have a new thread in the forums dedicated to specific infections and fixes for those infections. Users should use caution when applying these fixes and take note that machines may still have other infections after the specific fix is used. Read More Here