name to EnCase , a registered trademark of Guidance Software, Inc. 180solutions has

since replaced n Case with 180search Assistant. 180search Assistant

(http://www.180searchassistant.com) is described by 180solutions as  a small application

that is downloaded to your computer and runs in the background looking to show Web

sites with information, offers and products that match keywords that you are looking for

when either shopping or searching online.  180Solutions apparently created Zango as a

product that could be differentiated from itself from 180search Assistant. Still, there have

been repeated reports of installation of Zango without consent or through other deceptive

means.

CJB.NET

8. CJB.NET is a Web site registered by CJB Management, Inc. of Ohio,

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provided Internet services since 1998.

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  The Web site, www.cjb.net, offers services such

as free Web hosting, free URL redirection, free image hosting, free forum hosting, free

blog hosting, and anonymous surfing.  CJB.NET customers have the option of either

using the company's free hosting service, which is supported by advertising, or paying

$19.99 for a full year of hosting without advertising.  CJB.NET subsidizes the free

hosting option by distributing advertising software, including 180solutions programs such

as Zango.  180solutions does not target any specific user's Web site for advertising, but

targets CJB.NET generally, which then distributes the advertising to the free Web sites

hosted by CJB.NET.  Users/webmasters who do not want their Web site hosted by

CJB.NET to show ads must pay for the ad free subscription service.

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9. CJB.NET is a hosting company that offers free, ad supported Web hosting services.

Customers who sign up to have CJB.NET host their Web sites are not informed that the

sites will host adware, or that site visitors will be prompted to download adware

programs created by 180solutions.  Nor are customers conspicuously notified that they

have the option of paying $19.95 for a year of ad free hosting.

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  Users who sign up to

have a site hosted by CJB.NET are asked to provide a name for their Webpage, an email

address, and a password.  The subsequent screens offer users a number of promotional

offers.  New CJB.NET customers are prompted to accept at least one of these

promotional offers when signing up to receive a free Web page. Users who don't want to

participate in the promotional offers must locate and click on a tiny  No, Thanks  link

located under a large, brightly colored  Submit  button displayed prominently on the

page.  .  After either clicking  No, Thanks  or signing up for at least one promotional

offer, the next screen states  Your account has been created.   A link on the page allows

the user to upload files to their Web site.

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 See http://www.whois.sc/cjb.net.

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 See http://www.cjb.net/help.html.

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 After a user/webmaster has signed up to have a Web site hosted by CJB.NET, he or she must navigate

numerous password protected Web pages on CJB.NET's hosting service in order to find a drop down menu

that gives him or her the option of  Remov[ing] Advertising  for $19.99 per year.

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