You may know Zango, or even ZangoCash.
Zango is the type of software you'd get by forgetting to uncheck a checkbox somewhere or just installing the wrong software. It's adware combined with spyware that shows pop-ups based on your behavior, and occasionally hijacks your browser.
ZangoCash is a pay-per-install website. If you don't know what that is: Basically you sign up for an account, and Zango gives you all sorts of neat stuff like games that you can play or put on your website. And every time someone installs it, you get money! Wow! Less neat is the fact that it comes bundled with Zango.
ZangoCash seems to be known around here, judging from the deep-red scorecard. The site recently went down, but, alas, it resurfaced as pinballpublishernetwork.com (scorecard). It's a less obvious PPI site, but I suspect it's still the same thing inside.
Need proof? At the moment, hxxp://zangocash.com/ is redirecting to the new site, probably so they don't lose users.
Also:
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/05/Zango_ass...
hxxp://zango.com/message/
TL;DR:
pinballpublishernetwork.com
pinballcorp.com
pinballcorporation.com
zango.com
zangocash.com
I thought that this was
Fri Nov 6 21:34:19 2009 od Destinii HaruyaI thought that this was dead... Currently rating.
FreeSoftwareDL
Sat Dec 12 18:00:51 2009 od lunboksAnother affiliated site: freesoftwaredl.com, featuring freeware "binded" with something they call Hotbar. Zango pays their users for every victim they send to this site. Doesn't have a rating yet.
I had zango about a year ago
Wed Feb 10 02:52:32 2010 od jaynepaulghettoI had zango about a year ago but once I got rid of it I put it on my block cookies section and blocked it on revo uninstaller's block list.
revo uninstaller got
Wed Feb 10 03:52:39 2010 od demonluorevo uninstaller got blocklist? i only know it got autorun manager that can block auto startup program...
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Pinball...
Wed Feb 10 15:49:11 2010 od TonorDon't forget to rate the new sub-domains:
pinballpublishernetwork.com:
mail.pinballpublishernetwork.com
prompt.pinballpublishernetwork.com
public.pinballpublishernetwork.com
static.pinballpublishernetwork.com
pinballcorp.com:
admin.pinballcorp.com
ns1.pinballcorp.com
ns2.pinballcorp.com
ns3.pinballcorp.com
gmail01.pinballcorp.com
gmail02.pinballcorp.com