Poor, misunderstood 180solutions (Zango)

[Dagwolf]

June 28, 2005 ?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...lutions28.html

180solutions has begun notifying 20 million people that the company's ad-serving software may have been installed on their computers without their consent.

The notifications, which started yesterday in the form of a pop-up message, is part of an effort by the Bellevue adware company to clean up its network amid intense criticism of past installation tactics.


"We want to make sure that every customer we have knows we have them," said 180solutions spokesman Sean Sundwall. "At the end of the day, it does us no good to have customers that don't know that our software is on their machines."

Awwwww

[Bake]

Maybe they send them an uninstall

[Dagwolf]

The notification being sent does not provide an uninstall button, although it does tell people how to remove the program. It also provides links to the company's privacy policy, end user license agreement and uninstall instructions.

From the same article. And notice the date...

[_Lush_]

sounds like they have been talking with their lawyers and were told to do that to stave off any lawsuits

[WiredGuy]

From the same article: Zango Lands $40 Million Deal

180SOLUTIONS
Employees: 96
Financing: $40 million from Spectrum Equity Investors
Software installations: 30 million
2003 revenue: $19 million

Doesn't look like they're hurting too much to me.
WG

[taboo_gal]

Misunderstood.

There are still stealth installs out there which they have blamed on their "advertising distributors". I don't support this type of business and I certainly don't want it on my machine.

[Vendzilla]

I just spent 2 days getting ad ware crap off my pc

[Wiggles]

they are getting attacked by all sides, they are fucked if they don't do something.