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180SearchAssistant
180SearchAssistant is an
adware
program that displays pop-ups based on a user's browsing habits.
It has been claimed the product presents ads under some circumstances and
that it contacts its maker's site without user permission, leading to it being
classified as
spyware by some third parties.
The 180SearchAssistant now more often comes under the name
Zango. Zango was
normally bound to the not-as-effective spyware in the 180-family, called
180Solutions. Like much spyware of this type, Zango claims to be nothing
more than a tool for helping you search the Internet. If removed by some types
of anti-spyware programs, it pops up a window saying that a third-party
application has removed Zango Search Assistant, probably without your knowledge
of doing so, and that computer settings can be critically damaged unless Zango
gets reinstalled. You will have 3 buttons below that text. The first one saying
to reinstall Zango, the second one to delete remaining files and the third one
saying to remind you later. This is the old flip
button trick, where all the buttons do the same thing (in this case
reinstall Zango). The right thing to do in that case is instead to click the x
in the upper right corner.
According to the manufacturer, 180search Assistant is no longer distributed.
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