180SearchAssistant

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180SearchAssistant is an adware program that displays pop-ups based on a user's browsing habits.

It has been claimed the product presents ads under some circumstances and that it contacts its maker's site without user permission, leading to it being classified as spyware by some third parties.

The 180SearchAssistant now more often comes under the name Zango. Zango was normally bound to the not-as-effective spyware in the 180-family, called 180 Solutions. Like much spyware of this type, Zango claims to be nothing more than a tool for helping you search the Internet. If removed by some types of anti-spyware programs, it pops up a window saying that a third-party application has removed Zango Search Assistant, probably without your knowledge of doing so, and that computer settings can be critically damaged unless Zango gets reinstalled. You will have 3 buttons below that text. The first one saying to reinstall Zango, the second one to delete remaining files and the third one saying to remind you later. This is the old flip button trick, where all the buttons do the same thing (in this case reinstall Zango). The right thing to do in that case is instead to click the x in the upper right corner.

According to the manufacturer, 180search Assistant is no longer distributed. However, it is distributed with Limewire.