Sponsors! Stop allowing Zango to steal from us AND you!

[babydred]

If we can redirect Zango infected visitors away from our sites using htaccess...why can't the sponsors do the same?

Think about it, if ALL sponsors implemented the redirect in their htaccess wouldn't that put a nice dent in Zango's wallet since Zango users wouldn't be able to reach the "signup page" and signup to the wrong site?
I'm pretty sure their would also be a few peeps very upset with Zango and pissed at themselves for downloading that Zango shit.

[qxm]

I'm with ya 100% Dred.....I already got my .htaccess files in place (even mainstream)

Well have to see what all the sponsors say about this.

...I'll stop by the comus forum to see what other people are saying about this........

[babydred]

See?

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zango [NC] 
RewriteRule ^$ [url]http://www.yoururl.com/fuckzango_page.html[/url] [R]

A simple three lines of htaccess coding put in your htaccess file is all it would take to put a dent in Zango's wallet and money back in ours!

[GrouchyAdmin]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On 
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zango [NC] 
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [url]http://www.yoururl.com/fuckzango_page.html[/url] [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

This (fixed) code will redirect anyone who has 'zango' in their User-Agent, and sends a 302 which tells the browser to basically continue to using the original URL. This won't break bookmarks.

[Penny24Seven]

Can I use that if my pages are just HTML? Sorry if that is a dumb question but I really do not know all this stuff. I also thought zango was on less then 1% of computers

[tony286]

is there somewhere I can read how its done?

[GrouchyAdmin]

Can I use that if my pages are just HTML? Sorry if that is a dumb question but I really do not know all this stuff. I also thought zango was on less then 1% of computers

Yes. mod_rewrite ties into Apache directly; it doesn't matter what is on your site. You'd generally put this into a '.htaccess' at the root of your site if you are a VirtualHost, but you can speed things up by adding it to your httpd.conf if you manage your own system.

[babydred]

Thanks for the fix GrouchyAdmin!

[babydred]

This (fixed) code will redirect anyone who has 'zango' in their User-Agent, and sends a 302 which tells the browser to basically continue to using the original URL. This won't break bookmarks.

Actually, trying to be up to date as possible

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine  On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zango|seekmo|hbtools|hotbar [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.YOUR_URL_HERE.com/zango_sucks_ass/ [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

[qxm]

YES!,.. that is exactly what I was going to post about...... zango users other user agents so the .htaccess entry above is the complete version.....cheers!

[RawAlex]

If we can redirect Zango infected visitors away from our sites using htaccess...why can't the sponsors do the same?

Think about it, if ALL sponsors implemented the redirect in their htaccess wouldn't that put a nice dent in Zango's wallet since Zango users wouldn't be able to reach the "signup page" and signup to the wrong site?
I'm pretty sure their would also be a few peeps very upset with Zango and pissed at themselves for downloading that Zango shit.

Do you want the truth? 99% of sponsors don't care where traffic comes from. You could be lining people up at gunpoint to join their site, as long as they don't charge back they don't care.

I would think though that processors such as CCBill and Epoch would be very, very smart to track the presence of zango in browsers and flag any affiliate that is getting excessively large amounts of their traffic in this fashion.

[babydred]

Bumping for the fight against Zango!

[hateman]

how hard is it for zango to change their User ID?

you people are dumb

[Azoy?]

good info. thanks

[blonda80]

witch sponsors are accepting zango? say their names!!!!

[babydred]

how hard is it for zango to change their User ID?

you people are dumb

Apparently smarter than you...they change or add a new one, we add a new and every other one we find...how hard can that be? The longer they go, the more that are "infected" get redirected...feel the drain.

Never said it could be done overnight...

Considering their still using the ones in the redirect makes me wonder how smart you are for your post.

[will76]

how hard is it for zango to change their User ID?

you people are dumb

FTC regulations. Maybe if they moved offshore. They have already been fined 3 million. If they try to conceal their browser name etc... they will be shut down or fined even more. I hope they do it.