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Court sides with Kaspersky, tells Zango to suck it up
Zango has a history of rising from the grave like some horrible software zombie. Their other incarnations include HotBar and 180solutions, both of which are familiar to those of you who wrestle with malware on a regular basis. Want to read about what Zango does? You'll have to visit Wikipedia or some other site, because the Zango website itself is a "closed user community."
In the lawsuit, Zango claimed Kaspersky should be ordered to reclassify Zango's programs as nonthreatening and asked that the court "prevent Kaspersky Lab's security software from blocking Zango's potentially undesirable programs."
Thankfully, the appellate court upheld an earlier ruling that granted Kaspersky "Good Samaratin immunity," and that they were free to classify Zango as adware and treat it as such.
This isn't the first time Zango has lost in court. Will it be the last? Doubtful. Zango probably still has a little money left to blow on spurious lawsuits, and there are plenty of other anti-malware developers they can bitch about.
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Kururugi said 5:30PM on 7-01-2009
I don't understand. How can Zango expect to tell Kaspersky how its software should run?
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Spanky said 8:45PM on 7-01-2009
Zango is bankrupt. Do your homework (Google, Bing, Ask.)
Zango was crapware but the legal argument Kaspersky used was crap and the court knew it. If you actually read the ruling, it says that Congress needs to change the law. The only way Kaspersky won was because they were called a "service." They were called a "service" rather than an application solely because they used a server to update their software. Let's see - that would fit the model for EVERY application.
Now - thanks to this crap ruling - any application that updates from a server can WIPE OUT any other application and never get sued because they are a service, not an application. Got it?
Kevin said 2:05AM on 7-02-2009
Sometimes the good guys do win.
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feraligatr8 said 4:57AM on 7-02-2009
Zango's the worst application on earth, GET RID OF IT!!!!
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