An Internet advertising firm called Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators said on Friday.

As part of the settlement, Zango must give consumers a way to remove disruptive adware and is barred from future downloads of its adware without consumers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said. "Consumers' computers belong to them, and they shouldn't have to accept any content they don't want," FTC consumer protection chief Lydia Parnes said in a statement.

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M$ Agent #2 (Registered) 2006-11-05 22:37:36 Hurraayyyy I just hope they actualy pay up. I hate pop ups and secretly installed software ! To me this is a victory for the consumer and average user. I miss the days when you didnt have to run 4 programs to keep virus, spyware,popups,spam out.... The hardware is faster and can handle the extra load, but it would be nicer if we didnt have to Reply | Quote

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