I don't think Zango is as much of a threat as the trojan codecs... they are everywhere...

Zango is also trojan codec.And i think all sites losing income beacuse of zango surfers beacuse i am very sure surfer wont buy anything if he will constantly bombared with popups.When i got popup,i blacklist that site in it.

Zango is advertising heavily on web2.0 sites like ifilm and veoh.. they are only going to get installed on more and more machines.. I dont use affiliate progs so i dont really care but it is pretty sad that just to get some advertising revenue these web 2.0 sites take that money...

Because unfortunately i'm too busy running my company :disgust

Yeah i am. I'm ahead on other things so it probably evens itself out. I'm sure the other program owners are in the same boat as i am. I'm busy making money for my affiliates and providing a kick ass site for my members. Unfortunately i haven't had time to look into this. I'm not ashamed to say that because I know i'm not alone.

I have noticed a DRAMATIC increase in the number of big sites like the video ones mentioned above as well as celebrity gossip and torrent sites pushing zango installs in the last few months so that 2% will be up to 5% or whatever soon enough.

I agree with the guy who said earlier though that the video codec site problem especially pushed thru' the current massive .cn .edu .gov Google spam is affecting us much more than zango

http://www.just-my-two-cents.onthisproblem.cn :)

Ozman the codec guys are fighting hard because in the long run they are facng a losing battle: Apparently thier shit don't work on Vista, or at least the infection process is very, very much harder and the update process almost impossible. They know they maybe only have another year before Vista becomes the (sadly) dominant OS, so they are trying hard to get to as many people as possible before their run out ways to get their stuff out.

They are agressive. Recently, they moved to installing EGNIX proxy servers on infected PCs, routing the traffic from their spams through the infected systems. If more ISPs paid a little attention, that problem would go away - they shouldn't allow webservers and should actively block income page requests.

Does anyone know if avnads is still allowing zango ads? That really pissed me off and I havent used them since.

get ready: the sky's gonna fall!

We once took our old computer "Lucy" and started just going crazy, hitting okay to install anything. This was before Zango ... would have been surprised the adult companies making so much cash off of such shady business.

You named your computer? :)

Honestly I've had a similar experience to shap with zango... I installed it on a clean pc and just surfed with it for days... I got a few pops here and there, they were pretty obviously labeled as "zango ads"... and when I removed it from add/remove I never got another ad.