Adware Maker Tries Image Makeover

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In an apparent attempt to shed its image as an aggressive adware pusher, 180solutions is alerting PC users whose computers run its ad-serving software and is offering tips on how to remove it. 180solutions has dubbed its notification effort a "campaign to renotify customers" to ensure "proper consent and disclosure," the Bellevue, Wash.-based company said in a statement.

The company on Monday started displaying messages on PCs to inform people that the software is installed on their system, 180solutions spokesman Sean Sundwall said. The message explains that the software displays pop-up ads and offers a link to uninstall the software, he said.

As is common with adware, many people may have unwittingly installed 180solutions' product. It may even have installed itself in a so-called drive-by install, where Web browser vulnerabilities are used to drop and install software on PCs when people visit malicious Web sites. 180solutions software is installed on about 20 million PCs, the company said.

Source: News.com

primesuspect

So, I'd say the short-media swat team has helped remove a few thousand instances of 180solutions garbageware.... Only 19,997,000 to go!

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primesuspect wrote:

So, I'd say the short-media swat team has helped remove a few thousand instances of 180solutions garbageware.... Only 19,997,000 to go!

Indeed.

SpywareShooter

This may be good as half the people who have 180S actually come here for HSA removal and don't even know that they have 180S. Maybe more people will be alert now that they have spyware.