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Zango (company), the Glossary

Zango, (also letter case zango), formerly ePIPO, 180solutions and Hotbar, was a software company that provided users access to its partners' videos, games, tools and utilities in exchange for viewing targeted advertising placed on their computers.^[1]

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Adware

Adware, often called advertising-supported software by its developers, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.

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AIM (software)

AIM (AOL Instant Messenger, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.

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AllAdvantage

AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits.

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Antivirus software

Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle.

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Botnet

A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other party continues the alleged unlawful activity.

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Center for Democracy and Technology

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation that advocates for digital rights and freedom of expression.

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Check Point

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an American-Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Class action

A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.

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Client (computing)

Client is a computer that gets information from another computer called server in the context of client–server model of computer networks.

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Communications Decency Act

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the United States Congress's first notable attempt to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

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Computer security

Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

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Computerworld

Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.

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Consent decree

A consent decree is an agreement or settlement that resolves a dispute between two parties without admission of guilt (in a criminal case) or liability (in a civil case).

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Defamation

Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.

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Discovery (law)

Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and depositions.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.

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Emoticon

An emoticon (rarely), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood, or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.

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End-user license agreement

An end-user license agreement or EULA is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user.

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ESET NOD32

ESET NOD32 Antivirus, commonly known as NOD32, is an antivirus software package made by the Slovak company ESET.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Forcepoint

Forcepoint is an American multinational corporation software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops computer security software and data protection, cloud access security broker, firewall and cross-domain solutions.

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Fortinet

Fortinet, Inc. is a cybersecurity company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

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Gen Digital

Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic.

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Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university.

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ICQ

ICQ New was a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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Instant messaging

Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.

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Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab (translit) is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom.

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Layoff

A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).

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McAfee

McAfee Corp., formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and 2004 to 2014, Network Associates Inc. from 1997 to 2004, and Intel Security Group from 2014 to 2017, is an American global computer security software company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) is an antivirus software component of Microsoft Windows.

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Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft 365 software suites.

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MSN Messenger

MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft.

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Norton AntiVirus

Norton AntiVirus is an anti-virus or anti-malware software product founded by Peter Norton, developed and distributed by Symantec (now Gen Digital) since 1990 as part of its Norton family of computer security products.

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Outlook Express

Outlook Express, formerly known as Microsoft Internet Mail and News, is a discontinued email and news client included with Internet Explorer versions 3.0 through 6.0.

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PC Tools (founded in 2003), formerly known as WinGuides.com, was a software company acquired by Symantec in 2008; the new owner eventually discontinued the PC Tools name.

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PCMag

PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.

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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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Pop-up ad

Pop-up ads or pop-ups are forms of online advertising on the World Wide Web.

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Pornography

Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal.

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Potentially unwanted program

A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted or unnecessary.

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Prejudice (legal term)

Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Product bundling

In marketing, product bundling is offering several products or services for sale as one combined product or service package.

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Restitution and unjust enrichment

Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery.

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RhythmOne

RhythmOne, previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company which owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel. Zango (company) and RhythmOne are Defunct software companies of the United States.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Server (computing)

A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network.

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Spybot – Search & Destroy

Spybot – Search & Destroy (S&D) is a spyware and adware removal computer program compatible with Microsoft Windows.

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Spyware

Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user by violating their privacy, endangering their device's security, or other means.

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StopBadware

StopBadware was an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites.

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Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment, also referred to as judgment as a matter of law or summary disposition, is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

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Superfish

Superfish was an advertising company that developed various advertising-supported software products based on a visual search engine.

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Targeted advertising

Targeted advertising is a form of advertising, including online advertising, that is directed towards an audience with certain traits, based on the product or person the advertiser is promoting.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theme (computing)

In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance and functionality details.

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Tortious interference

Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one person intentionally damages someone else's contractual or business relationships with a third party, causing economic harm.

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Warner Bros.

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A web widget is a web page or web application that is embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zango_(company)

Also known as 180 Solutions, 180SearchAssistant, 180Solutions, Epipo, HbTools, HotBar, Platrium, Seekmo, Zango Cash, Zango Messenger, ZangoCash.

, Privately held company, Product bundling, Restitution and unjust enrichment, RhythmOne, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Server (computing), Spybot – Search & Destroy, Spyware, StopBadware, Summary judgment, Superfish, Targeted advertising, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Theme (computing), Tortious interference, Warner Bros., Web widget, Windows Live Mail, Windows Registry, Yahoo! Messenger.

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