Snopes Pushing Zango Adware

DaMan writes "Here's something that isn't an urban legend — Snopes, the popular urban legends reference site, has been pushing adware, for at least 6 months, to users via ads displayed on its Web site. No one seems to have called them on it until recently."

I hear...

[Landshark17]

They also run spam servers... http://xkcd.com/250/ [xkcd.com]

This sounds fake...

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe I should go check an urban myth site to see if it's real...

Turncoat!

[Misanthrope]

Stay good Snopes! Stay good!

Coincidentally...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Pushing Zango" is Dominican slang for having sex with an elderly woman. It's true.

Re:Misleading Summary

[Anonymous Coward]

This summary is somewhat misleading, since the user actually has to click the banner to install the software.

I know, and I had a hell of a time trying to get it to work under Wine! they really should fix that

Re:I hear...

[kentrel]

I read that comic too a few weeks ago, and did some research to try and verify it, but couldn't find any significant evidence.

Anyone find any?

Re:I hear...

[_KiTA_]

They also run spam servers... http://xkcd.com/250/ [xkcd.com]


Meh, I read somewhere that that was debunked.

Re:News?

[badasscat]

The news part is the fact that it's actively being discussed on a site like Slashdot.

Help me understand this.

It's news on Slashdot... because it's news on Slashdot?

That's a pretty meta way of determining newsworthiness...

So it also follows that if it was not news on Slashdot, then it wouldn't make it onto Slashdot?

I'm pretty sure this isn't true.

[foxtrot]

Snopes claims it's an urban legend.

Re:Turncoat!

[hiryuu]

You forgot the <kiki></kiki> tags... :P

Re:Coincidentally...

[Nimey]

Is that Dominican-the-country or Dominican-the-Catholic-religious-order?

Re:Oneword

[STrinity]

Use them. It's just four clicks and a Restart. Install Now. Install Now. Install Now. Install Now. Restart.

I just did, but I'm still seeing your message, so obviously it doesn't work.

Re:It's not a Snopes Problem.

[palegray.net]

Spelling it "Windoze" and "M$" just makes me think you're a moron. You're not a moron, are you? Why would you want me to think that?

Hey, man, ease up. My bro there sounds like a mature man of 14 wise years. He's just tryin' to lay the truth on you, for real. He ain't gotta do no code review, he got that shizzle memorized, yo. He's pimpin that junk in binary, it ain't even on our level. True talk, he's down with the open source life-style like a mutha. He's the kind of real playa who's got spreadsheets printed out all over his bedsheets, in ODF format for sure.

Microsoft better watch out when he rolls deep with his leet skillz, he'll bust a cap in that closed source shiznit. Word.

Re:News?

[Architect_sasyr]

Well that explains the dupes...

Re:It's not a Snopes Problem.

[thetorpedodog]

Word.

Surely you mean "OpenOffice Writer", my home-dawg?

Re:I hear...

[argiedot]

Humour about the inner workings of anti-virus companies may not be your forte, but placing accents on random letters certainly is ;)

Re:adblock

[Corporate Troll]

Nah, but consider it this way: Microsoft wants us to waste our time on slashdot. Imagine if only half of the people here started to help with open source ;-)

Re:It's not a Snopes Problem.

[Anonymous Coward]

If Scientology and Linux had a baby, twitter would be the offspring. Loud, obnoxious, little social skills, and an overwhelming "I need to save you all from yourselves and the evil Xenu / M$."

Re:I don't see any claim for driveby install

[Anonymous Coward]

a little girl in Indiana went missing

That's terrible! How can I help?

and if you just forward it to your friends some company will donate $1 to the save the little girl fund

Thanks! I will!