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July 11, 2006
Adware Comes To Myspace
Posted by Dave Evans
BoingBoing says:
MySpace users are being tricked into installing adware on their PCs through embedded video links that appear in "friend" profiles, according to several blog reports today. Clicking on the "play" button in certain videos may mean you've just consented to install Zango's (180 Solutions) adware.
While it was only a matter of time before this happened, it's still depressing. I get enough Myspace crap already, at least it's all on the site and not email spam, yet.
Once Zango figures out Friend Trains, it's going to get really ugly. My friend requests are already 99.9% pr0n already. At least there are no Mac spam toolbars yet.
Technorati Tags: adware, myspace, spam
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1. Bacchus on July 12, 2006 6:22 AM writes...
yeah what's the deal? I got a friend request from a girl named "Nicole", clicked on her image to see if I actually knew her, and now I've gotten 20 friend requests from random girls in bikinis over the last 2 minutes. How do I block the spam?
Permalink to Comment2. Edward Orysiek on July 13, 2006 6:05 PM writes...
Zango is blaming two of their developers:
"Those two test accounts were actually created by one of our developers who was exploring possible opportunities, but he didn't realize it was Zango business practice not to target MySpace," said (Zango spokesman Steve) Stratz. "He should not have been doing this, and we want to tell MySpace that we didn't mean to target them." The developer, said Stratz, would soon be deleting the profiles.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=190302133
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