Comments on: Zango Acquires Smart Shopper For $9 Million: Now More Evil http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:18:06 -0800 hourly 1 By: BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool | Tech stuff center http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3037335 BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool | Tech stuff center Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:01:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-3037335 [...] and Hotbar) back in the nineties, a venture that was and still is associated heavily with spyware and adware. The company ran into trouble with the FTC, and was forced to close its doors mainly [...] [...] and Hotbar) back in the nineties, a venture that was and still is associated heavily with spyware and adware. The company ran into trouble with the FTC, and was forced to close its doors mainly [...]

]]> By: BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3037017 BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:41:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-3037017 [...] and Hotbar) back in the nineties, a venture that was and still is associated heavily with spyware and adware. The company ran into trouble with the FTC, and was forced to close its doors mainly [...] [...] and Hotbar) back in the nineties, a venture that was and still is associated heavily with spyware and adware. The company ran into trouble with the FTC, and was forced to close its doors mainly [...]

]]> By: chzplz http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3020155 chzplz Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:28:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-3020155 Thanks Michael - i was trying to figure out how in the hell I ended up with this (and Yahoo). It was jZip for me too. Thanks Michael – i was trying to figure out how in the hell I ended up with this (and Yahoo). It was jZip for me too.

]]> By: Delete Smart Shopper http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2788135 Delete Smart Shopper Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:08:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-2788135 I have found a way to finally remove smart shopper..This will help everyone that hates this adware. Open IE and click on Tools, then select Mangage Add-Ons. Click on Enable or Disable AdOns Find Smart Shopper and click on it...then select disable. Keep in mind that you will probably find Smart Shopper listed several times...you have to select each one and select disable. Thats It!!! GoodBye Smart Shopper. Your Welcome. I have found a way to finally remove smart shopper..This will help everyone that hates this adware.

Open IE and click on Tools, then select Mangage Add-Ons. Click on Enable or Disable AdOns Find Smart Shopper and click on it…then select disable. Keep in mind that you will probably find Smart Shopper listed several times…you have to select each one and select disable.

Thats It!!! GoodBye Smart Shopper.

Your Welcome.

]]> By: Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2691504 Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:32:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-2691504 [...] An online comparison shopping engine. TechCrunch [...] [...] An online comparison shopping engine. TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: Michael http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2571692 Michael Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:08:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-2571692 I downloaded a free zip utility called jZip. It installed Smartshopper, Yahoo Toolbar, Yahoo as the default search engine, and a lot of other stuff I can't remember. It took me about an hour of fiddling to remove all this stuff. (I also removed jZip) Stay away from jZip. I downloaded a free zip utility called jZip. It installed Smartshopper, Yahoo Toolbar, Yahoo as the default search engine, and a lot of other stuff I can’t remember. It took me about an hour of fiddling to remove all this stuff. (I also removed jZip)

Stay away from jZip.

]]> By: para http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2546989 para Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:02:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-2546989 how do you get rid of this thing i want it off how do i remove it help pleas how do you get rid of this thing i want it off how do i remove it help pleas

]]> By: Michael http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2519152 Michael Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:04:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-2519152 are you kidding me? smartshopper is very difficult to remove. i went to open my control panel and smartshopper is not listed. then i tried to find anti-adware to remove this darn thing but you got to pay to have it remove it. ahhh!!! still stuck with smartshopper. i got infected with it when i installed pando. now i uninstalled it and i still have smartshopper!!! help!! are you kidding me? smartshopper is very difficult to remove. i went to open my control panel and smartshopper is not listed. then i tried to find anti-adware to remove this darn thing but you got to pay to have it remove it. ahhh!!! still stuck with smartshopper. i got infected with it when i installed pando. now i uninstalled it and i still have smartshopper!!! help!!

]]> By: Jeff http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1698759 Jeff Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:01:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1698759 Guy, I don't know about Jango or HotBar.com but I do use SmartShopper for a long time now and it is one of the best software I have installed. It is ease to uninstall it and I'm not getting any ads from it. so please give those guys the credit they disserve. Guy,

I don’t know about Jango or HotBar.com but I do use SmartShopper for a long time now and it is one of the best software I have installed.

It is ease to uninstall it and I’m not getting any ads from it.

so please give those guys the credit they disserve.

]]> By: Doug Mehus http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1696859 Doug Mehus Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:16:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1696859 I have to say it but Don (#6) is right, Duncan. Pretty weak reporting. Not only what Don said about it being adware, you said in your piece that Smart Shopper was previously owned by HotBar.com, Inc., another adware distributor. Well, most tech-savvy people like me know that 180 Solutions and HotBar.com merged early in 2006 or late 2005 to create one unified company, Zango. The merged company name was Zango, Inc. So, they likely simply transferred the domain registration for "Smart Shopper" and updated the "about us" page to reflect this, albeit over a year and a half late! Cheers, Doug I have to say it but Don (#6) is right, Duncan. Pretty weak reporting. Not only what Don said about it being adware, you said in your piece that Smart Shopper was previously owned by HotBar.com, Inc., another adware distributor. Well, most tech-savvy people like me know that 180 Solutions and HotBar.com merged early in 2006 or late 2005 to create one unified company, Zango. The merged company name was Zango, Inc. So, they likely simply transferred the domain registration for “Smart Shopper” and updated the “about us” page to reflect this, albeit over a year and a half late!

Cheers,
Doug

]]> By: » Zango Acquires Smart Shopper For $9 Million || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1695045 » Zango Acquires Smart Shopper For $9 Million || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:29:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1695045 [...] to navigate,” wrote John Cook on the SeattlePi.com Venture Blog.  TechCrunch was the first to report the acquisition. Sphere [...] [...] to navigate,” wrote John Cook on the SeattlePi.com Venture Blog.  TechCrunch was the first to report the acquisition. Sphere [...]

]]> By: tom http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693948 tom Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:20:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693948 well, now you are owned by the spam kings, have fun. well, now you are owned by the spam kings, have fun.

]]> By: Don http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693898 Don Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:54:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693898 I also gotta say that that was pretty flimsy reporting. You say SmartShopper is "really adware that does nothing more than deliver advertisements and is difficult to remove." and use a search on Google as your reference for that? You could have at least installed it and checked it out, then removed it to see how hard it was. I also gotta say that that was pretty flimsy reporting. You say SmartShopper is “really adware that does nothing more than deliver advertisements and is difficult to remove.” and use a search on Google as your reference for that? You could have at least installed it and checked it out, then removed it to see how hard it was.

]]> By: Steve Ballmer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693813 Steve Ballmer Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:14:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693813 Zango made a dumb smart shopper deal. lol http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com Zango made a dumb smart shopper deal. lol

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

]]> By: Benji http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693544 Benji Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:58:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693544 People, why do you love to hate so much? Zango is evil, this is true. SmartShopper is really helpful when you do your shopping on the Internet, and it is easy as pie to remove it if you don't want it - you just open the list of programs, and there in plain site you can choose "remove SmartShopper" and it is gone without a trace. People who say otherwise - I challenge you to post here the results of a disk / registry scan after you have removed SmartShopper and prove that it is not removed completely. People, why do you love to hate so much?
Zango is evil, this is true.
SmartShopper is really helpful when you do your shopping on the Internet, and it is easy as pie to remove it if you don’t want it – you just open the list of programs, and there in plain site you can choose “remove SmartShopper” and it is gone without a trace.
People who say otherwise – I challenge you to post here the results of a disk / registry scan after you have removed SmartShopper and prove that it is not removed completely.

]]> By: Baby names http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693407 Baby names Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:50:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693407 Zango truly is evil, I hope they rot! Zango truly is evil, I hope they rot!

]]> By: Gary Mckenzie http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693386 Gary Mckenzie Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:41:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693386 spyware buys spyware not bad. spyware buys spyware not bad.

]]> By: micfo.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1693380 micfo.com Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:37:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/zango-acquires-smart-shopper-for-9-million-now-more-evil/#comment-1693380 So the smart shoppers will get free spyware offer for shopping. :) So the smart shoppers will get free spyware offer for shopping. :)

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