Court sides with Kaspersky, tells Zango to suck it up
If there’s one type of software news that always brightens my day, it’s news that a purveyor of crapware has lost a legal game of Rochambault. This time, it was Kaspersky snatching victory away from perennial nuisance Zango.
Zango has a history of rising from the grave like some horrible software zombie. Their other incarnations include HotBar and 180solutions, both of which are familiar to those of you who wrestle with malware on a regular basis. Want to read about what Zango does? You’ll have to visit Wikipedia or some other site, because the Zango website itself is a “closed user community.”
In the lawsuit, Zango claimed Kaspersky should be ordered to reclassify Zango’s programs as nonthreatening and asked that the court “prevent Kaspersky Lab’s security software from blocking Zango’s potentially undesirable programs.”
Thankfully, the appellate court upheld an earlier ruling that granted Kaspersky “Good Samaratin immunity,” and that they were free to classify Zango as adware and treat it as such.
This isn’t the first time Zango has lost in court. Will it be the last? Doubtful. Zango probably still has a little money left to blow on spurious lawsuits, and there are plenty of other anti-malware developers they can bitch about.
