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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
the weird irony in this is that one of you guys is going to get sued by zango for calling it spyware and for trying to hurt their business. look at it from their perspective... its adware, the user consented to install it and see popups. hurting their business because you feel they might be hurting yours, does not relieve you of any legal liabilities for damages you might be causing to them.
something to think about...
flame away.
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the majority of virus softwares call it spyware. A lot of sites like Ben Elderman call it spyware and he is an attorney, so i think he knows what he is doing. More then half of the people who have it installed do not know how it got there and call it spyware. Even 180 solutions itself admits that some of their affiliates did intalls without people knowing.
The difference between adware and spyware seems to be if the person agreed to have it installed vs did not know it was put on their pc. So 180solutions saying they know people received their shit without permission seems like an admission of guilt to me, that it is spyware.
If it smells like shit, looks like shit, and taste like shit, it is shit no matter how much you try to tell people it is steak.
If one person started making up stuff like saying Company XYZ was selling drugs out of their office, or they where promoting CP, etc.. for something like that you can be sued. You can't be sued for calling an "adware" company "spyware" when the company itself admits that several people had their software installed with out the person knowing.