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Warner Bros. To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango
Published July 30th, 2006 in All Categories, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Malware, Security
Warner Bros. Studios, home to Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Harry Potter, said yesterday that it 
plans to terminate a business relationship with Zango Inc., an adware company that has been offering free games on the Warner Bros. Web site in exchange for permission to install a computer program that could push advertisements and pornography.
Zango is offering free downloads of games on a Warner Bros. Web page called “Fun Stuff” that appears to be for children. But when users click on the game, they’re directed to a page that asks for permission to install on the computer a program called Zango Search Assistant. Hidden in the terms of agreement is the disclosure that users may receive adult-oriented ads through it.
A Warner Bros. spokesperson could not say yesterday how soon the Zango link would be removed from the Warner Brothers site, adding that the companies were in a contractual agreement and that lawyers would have to be involved. Warner Bros. To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango
