Re: Warner Brothers Signs Deal with 180Solutions

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 Damn! Looks like folks using BOClean are gonna be whining a blue streak.   :)

 Nickelodeon has been an amazing source of trojans lately, looks like CNN is next. Do they STILL have any viewers? Now 
granted, 180 solutions has been all OVER the media lately with "we're NICE guys" and all, blaming "rogue installers" 
for all of their "issues" ... but in the end, when a "rogue install by button-pushing occurs" there STILL ain't no 
website on the other end ready to stuff their stovepipe saying "WELCOME to 180 solutions! If you didn't come here 
voluntarily, do you REALLY want to install our crapware?"

 As REGIS would say ... "final answer?" What? No QUESTION? The crapware people, if anyone with a CLUE is to believe 
them would INTERCEPT that install and ENSURE that folks *REALLY* want to install that stuff. Until then ... malware.   
:(

 Light that chit, smoke that chit, PASS that chit.   :)

At 10:46 AM 5/11/06, Unca Fergie wrote:
> Via The Inquirer.
>
> [snip]
>
> Warner Brothers have signed a deal with 180SOLUTIONS to provide content for the outfit's consumer site Zango.com.
>
> Their shows, "Deception" and the animated show "Medical Island" were created specifically for the Web are only 
> available if you download 180Solutions ad-serving software which will deliver six pop-up ads a day.
>
> The Warners have been a bit quiet about the deal, possibly because 180solutions is at odds with the likes of the 
> Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) who has laid a complaint about it with the Federal Trade Commission.
>
> [snip]
>
> Link:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31639
>
> Also mentioned by Alex Eckelberry on the Sunbelt Blog here:
> http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/oh-and-bittorrent-isnt-only-thing.html
>
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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