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by Wendy Davis, Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008 8:00 AM ET

ADWARE PURVEYOR ZANGO IS PRESSING forward with its case that spyware removal vendor Kaspersky Lab wrongly interfered with Zango’s relationships with Web users.

In papers filed with a federal appeals court, Bellevue, Wash.-based Zango argued that Kaspersky, which removes software that serves pop-up ads, should itself be considered “badware.” “Kaspersky disabled Zango without the customer’s consent and without the customer’s ability to override Kaspersky’s invasive actions,” Zango argued to the Ninth Circuit in a brief filed late last week. “Kaspersky inflicted this interference by behaving like the very ‘badware’ from which it purported to protect consumers.”

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Thanks to Suzi at Spyware Warrior.