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Zango Adware

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About Adware Zango

Zango is an adware issued by 180 solutions. The program monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes.

How to Remove Zango ?

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You can uninstall the program by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs. From the list select Zango Search Tool or something like this , click Remove or Change to uninstall it.

To manually remove the adware, use the following removal steps:

1. Close all open Internet Explorer windows.
2. Open a DOS command prompt window ( Start > Run , type 'cmd' (on Windows NT/2000/XP ) or 'command' (on Windows 95/98/Me)) and enter the following commands,
   
   cd %ProgramFiles%\ZangoClient\
   regsvr32 /u zangohook.dll
   
3. Click Start > Run, type 'regedit' and click Ok to open Registry Editor.
4. Navigate to the following key:
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
   
   In the right pane find and delete the entry with the value ' zanu' (which points to the file zanu.exe ) or ' Zango TvTimes ' (which points to the file ZangoTVTimes ) .
   
5. Reboot the computer.
6. Open the Registry eidtor again, navigate to and delete the following keys to clean up (if exist):
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\ {21B4ACC4-8874-4AEC-AEAC-F567A249B4D4}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\ {0AC49246-419B-4EE0-8917-8818DAAD6A4E}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\ {99410CDE-6F16-42ce-9D49-3807F78F0287}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\ {2B0ECEAC-F597-4858-A542-D966B49055B9}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\ {DDEA2E1D-8555-45E5-AF09-EC9AA4EA27AD}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\ {F1F1E775-1B21-454D-8D38-7C16519969E5}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\ {5B6689B5-C2D4-4DC7-BFD1-24AC17E5FCDA}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\ {21B4ACC4-8874-4AEC-AEAC-F567A249B4D4}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\ {7B178417-3CDA-444F-94FF-312C0A3A78A8}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\ {68BF4626-D66B-4383-A6AF-62E57E9B6CD4}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\ {15EA8944-438E-471E-860D-6743D4383A37}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\ {E5B57AB3-15F8-43A2-ABAC-3E58A9C25818}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ncmyb.SABHO
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ncmyb.SABHO.1
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ClientAX.ClientInstaller
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ClientAX.ClientInstaller.1
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ClientAX.RequiredComponent
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ClientAX.RequiredComponent.1
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\zanu
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Zango TV Times
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units \ {99410CDE-6F16-42ce-9D49-3807F78F0287}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\zanu
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\zanu
   
7. Exit Registry Editor.
   
8. Delete the following folders:
   
   %ProgramFiles%\ZangoClient\
   %ProgramFiles%\Zango Applications\
   

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