Zango and MySpace

I first saw this at Trench’s MyCrimeSpace and then on TechCrunch. I previously wrote about Zango, the new supervillain of spyware and popup ads in this post here.

Zango is distributing funny videos, but in order to view them, you have to accept a license agreement, which then installs the Zango Toolbar. Sure, there is other content that Zango offers, but right now it is rather limited. But each video comes with a snippet of code that you copy onto your MySpace page, which then allows other common user profiles to become spyware distributors! You can see some screenshots over here at VitalSecurity.

You have to hand it to someone that uses MySpace as a way to spread the spyware. If Zango gets their hands on a really good piece of video that would go “viral,” then MySpace will become even more annoying when you browse the pages than it already is.

Yet one more reason for parents to block MySpace- It prevents Spyware. And here is a prediction: Next up will be a virus that crawls through the friends lists.