if a user visits your site using firefox and they got the zango installed will the user agent not show as firefox not zango as the zango user agent only gets used for their popups I might be wrong
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I installed Zango on my PC and it didn't touch firefox. It looks like it only installs itself into IE by default. But anyway, what the rewrite does is check the user-agent that gets reported and if zango is found anywhere in that line, they get redirected.
Here's an example of one of my log lines with Zango installed on IE:
You can see that the toolbar comes up as one of the options after the browser type. If it can be installed into firefox, it should come up the same way. The redirect only cares if "zango" is there or not, it doesn't care what browser is being used at all.71.33.61.237 - - [09/Nov/2006:05:54:29 -0600] "GET /ct/thumbs/tn75446.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4102 "http://www.myfuckinwife.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; ZangoToolbar 4.8.2)"Comment
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Here's a bump and a little more info. If you think Zango doesn't effect you or your site, try this little experiment.
If you're on a linux based server, log into your shell, go into whatever directory stores your logs and type this:
grep -i zango access_log
Replace access_log with whatever your log is called, although 95% should be access_log.
Every single line that comes up on your screen there is a hit from a browser with Zango installed. I guarantee that anyone who does this will find thousands.Comment
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yeah woo hoo the anti-zango revolution in full efect wahaaaa“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”Comment
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I've been sending Zango users to a warning page for awhile
I'd still like to know how to implement across all the domains on a server more easily.Comment
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I don't really have the time to sit down now and find the exact how-to type stuff, but basically anything you put into an .htaccess file can also be applied to the global apache httpd.conf file. Htaccess really is just a per-instance extension of the conf file.
You should be able to set up the exact same redirect code somewhere in the virtualhosts configuration section of your main config file. Then it would be effective on every single domain on the server.
Of course, doing it that way, you'd have to redirect them somewhere off that server, or you'd get an infinite loop.
I'll see if I can find the exact stuff sometime tonight or tomorrow.Comment
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thanks now i can log into guba without getting annoying popups
my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died
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And ya know Topbucks offers Adware Remover Gold as a product you can sell and make money on, I send my Zango infected surfers to them.Comment
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Very handy. I hope they dont decide to change their useragent to something unique now.
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hey bitching serves a purpose too. Like he said he was reading all of the zango posts this morning and what he was reading made him pissed so he did something.
Not everyone can do something, if it wasn't for the people bitching then people like Fuckin Bill might not have ever found out about this. Hell even the sig whore bumping these threads and keeping them on top help.ICQ: 86364801 Email: will [at] innovativeassets [dot] com
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Anything to stop zango and make the business model fail.Comment
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I might add that if you want to test your .htaccess without installing that crap on your machine, you change your user agent string with firefox with the instructions here:
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/2...useragent.html
or you can get this plugin for firefox that will do it also. If you are web developers, you should have this knowledge handy anyway.Comment
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thanks for link to plug inComment
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