woody7
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Torrance, CA
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| hmmmm.....
The problem with the fines is that they are ridiculously low, and totally meaningless.....up it to say 25 or 30 mil and you will then start seeing some action, along with a strict cease and desist....which if ignored and then you really start escalating the fines....JMT
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Thrudd
join:2004-06-21
Mississauga, ON |  What they should have done
They should be treating these guys the same way and with the same harsh methods they do with the Drug trade.
100% confiscation of all monies and assets involved in the crime. |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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| said by Thrudd  :They should be treating these guys the same way and with the same harsh methods they do with the Drug trade. 100% confiscation of all monies and assets involved in the crime. I second that suggestion.
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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| reply to woody7
Re: hmmmm.....
Even that amount is too low for this scumbag spyware
purveyor - make the fine 10 times that and perhaps they
will clean up their act. Or then again maybe not.
And changing their name from 180 Solutions to Zango
does nothing to improve their image. You can't polish a
turd...
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tooslowtostop
@rr.com
| $3 million is just peanuts to them
180 solutions is without a doubt one of the worse spyware companies on the face of the earth. Back when I was tracking botnet networks many of the botnet owners bragged about how much money they were earning with 180 solutions and they did nothing about it. 180 claims they can't stop it but they can, you see what what 180 solutions doesn't tell you is most of its spyware is distributed through affiliates all of which are given unique tracking codes. If an affiliate is getting 30,000 installs per day with 0 visits to their affilite url shouldn't that be a big red flag that they are doing something illegal? 180 solutions has simply decided that they would turn their backs to this activity and pretend it doesnt exist in order to keep profits up.
But it doesn't stop there, it gets worse for website owners. The way 180 solutions/Zango make money is by having advertisers bid on domains where they want popups and visitors redirected. For example if you owned an auction site you could simply pay Zango/180 solutions to redirect everyone who goes to www.ebay.com to your crummy auction site instead. If eBay wanted their users/customers back it would have to go to zango and pay them more than what the current advertiser is paying just so they don't lose money. All this is just e-racketeering where both advertisers, consumers, and affiliates are getting screwed over in every sense of the word.
Everyone needs to write to their government so they do something to make this type of adware/spyware illegal and impose much more severe fines. $3 million is a joke considering 180 solutions made $54 just in 2004 alone. Now that they have tripled in size and revenue thats just 1 months worth of bandwidth to them. |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to Doctor Four
Re: hmmmm.....
said by Doctor Four :And changing their name from 180 Solutions to Zango does nothing to improve their image. You can't polish a turd... Sure you can: »www.roopooco.com/ 
At least that company is honest about pedaling dung though. |
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Maggs
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join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY
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| reply to woody7
Easy way to eliminate spyware is to find the CEOs of these companies and riddle the car there in with bullets. But unfortunately that's not legal 
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hangthescumbags
@comcast.net | The only good Spammer is a DEAD Spammer !
SOS, DD.
These folks should be beat with a 2 x 4 for a week, hung by their balls for a month, then thrown in in deep hole for eternity. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to Doctor Four
Re: hmmmm.....
said by Doctor Four :You can't polish a turd You can but it still looks and smells like shit.
I'm all for seizing/freezing ALL their assets. "cut the head off and the body dies"
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damn
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join:2002-10-23
nyc
| reply to Maggs
said by Maggs :Easy way to eliminate spyware is to find the CEOs of these companies and riddle the car there in with bullets. But unfortunately that's not legal You just reminded me of that Russian spammer that got shot about a year ago in his apartment  .
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | Good
They deserve it. |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs: | Stupid is as stupid does.
I give up. You want cheep broadband so the great unwashed can load up on spy-ware and become Zombies. I hope you all get what you deserve. |
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