The advertising company was fined $ 3 million for distributing adware

$ 3 million is the amount of money that adware company Zango is sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Zango also has to provide a tool for Internet users to remove Zango adware that have accidentally stuck on the device. The reason for Zango being so severely punished is because the company illegally installed adware on the user's computer.

Be careful what Zango installs on your device

FTC claims users have full ownership of their computers and do not have to accept any software they don't want.

Zango was formerly known as 180solutions and used many different ways to install adware-infected software. Zango's adware software includes: Zango Search Assistant, 180Search Assistant, Seekmo and n-CASE.

These software have the ability to control the internet usage of the computers they infect. According to statistics, there are more than 70 million times these software are illegally installed and they have created 6.9 billion pop-up ads using information obtained on victims' computers.

FTC decided to apply a penalty to Zango because it made it difficult for users to identify and remove the adware from the computer.

In addition to being fined $ 3 million and forced to provide an adware removal tool, Zango is banned from using adware by FTC to control user activities without annotation when installing.

HOANG TUNG