14 DAY TRIAL // Kaspersky has deemed Zango applications as threats and every time a user with KAV wants to install a Zango program, the anti-virus says it's malware. Surely, this did not please Zango, as it affects good marketing... so they took action.
Zango sued Kaspersky in a try to make them remove Zango software from the Kaspersky blacklist of malware. Of course, Kasperky stood their ground and continued to flag Zango programs as undesirable software, thus blocking them. Kaspersky won in court, all based on the Communications Decency Act, part of which says 'No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected, or any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to [such] material.' So, if you ask me, knowing Kaspersky as well as Zango, I think that the anti-virus company has every right to do this.
'Kaspersky Lab's mission is, and has always been, to make the Internet a safer place for all. We are thrilled with the outcome of this case because it supports the key message of the information security industry - consumer protection comes first,' - says Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab. What's Kaspersky? In case you have been living under a rock and you don't know it already, Kaspersky Lab delivers the world's most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing and spam. Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and the industry's fastest outbreak response time for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry's leading IT security solution providers. This whole information comes from their site.
Now, what is Zango? According to their official website, Zango, Inc. is an online media company providing consumers free access to a large catalog of free, sought-after online videos, games, music, tools and utilities. Much like television, this content is funded by advertising and is therefore free to the consumer.