Comments on: Feds asked to take action against adware maker

Anti-spyware watchdog lodges complaint with the FTC against 180solutions, alleging deceptive business practices.

[yrrahxob]

I have had problems with them too

I had so many problems with 180solutions on my system I had to install anti-spyware software just to keep them from showing up everyday on my system. I hope they are completely shut down because they are not going to clean up their act. If they are shut down, maybe the rest of the spyware companies will pay attention and clean up their act.

[fjellt]

I love 'em (VERY Sarcastic)

180solutions made me TONS of money while I was working for a tech company. The adware infestation on the average user's computer was really shocking, and I really hate the way that they work.

[inachu]

Not only 180Solutions but I am sick of View Point!

I am sick of ViewPoint showing up in the control panel! If you are not Antivirus or firewall then you have no right to be in the control panel.

The only extra Icon I can forgive to sit
in the control panel is the AC3 filter.

[Technoracle]

Don't forget LOP.

The model came from a parasitic company called LOP. Very difficult to get rid of. Their self described "uninstaller" does not get rid of LOP. The company was basically advertising porn to my 13 year old son after ricking him into installing the BHO on IE. I had to use a combination of tools (highjack this et al) to get rid of it.

All people who work for LOP are fair game for legal action IMO. Time to finally act on this!

[freq]

cottage industry sys admins..........

the Feds are killing our neiborhood sys admins!.... I thought spybot would do it... maybe this will be the final blow.... then they will have to have find jobs at compusa...

I miss the good ol' days.... NeXT Step, Irix, SunOS, Win3.1, linux, MacOS 7..............

at least jobs were easier to come by then.... and you didnt have to know some "well endowed" popular cult

[BMR777]

It's Good to see CJB go down for this too: 180 Sucks

Its good to see CJB go down for this as well as 180 solutions.

I actually noticed this a while back when I mis-typed a URL ending in CJB.net. The page told me that I must download a program in order to view the page. In reality, it was just a 404 page and there was no page there anyway. A quick view of the source code of the 404 page led to zangoapps, part of 180.

CJB has also been involved with Gator and ActiveX installs in the past. CJB as well as 180 deserve to pay for their deceptive practices!!!

BMR777
http://www.rusnakweb.com