Spyware Firm Sues Over Being Labeled 'Spyware'
Zango dropped its first case against PCTools and had the second case against Kaspersky dismissed when a federal court deemed that antivirus and anti-spyware companies can block any software they see as objectionable or harassing under the Communications Decency Act.
Wikipedia says the following concerning Zango:
“Zango manufactures adware and spyware typically downloaded as a license key to access games, DRM-protected videos and software for download such as Zango Messenger…StopBadware.org lists a number of undesirable behaviors associated with Zango Easy Messenger, including ‘behaves as spyware,’ ‘automatically runs on startup,’ ‘displays pop-up advertisements’, ‘installs adware.’, and ‘bundled software cannot be closed’.”
Sounds malicious to me, especially the part about pop-ups and not being able to be closed.
Zango tries, fails to sue its way out from under the “spyware” label [Ars Technica]