The Yapbrowser saga continues...

Questions are currently being asked about the Yapbrowser application which bundled Zango in with a rather unfortunate "surprise" package (more of a nightmare, actually).

To their credit(!), the Yapbrowser people have popped up across the security sites and put their case forward - unfortunately, it looks like English is most definitely not their first choice of language. I can't see how we're going to get answers to some of my questions, when the best we can get is this answer posted at Wayne's blog:

This document have no any attitude. Idea of mini browser we have got realy long time ago. Mini browser is nessery that user can see free content with. Our idea consist in. In document told about multyfunctionsl bot. Please remember why we need all this?
It is not visible that have substituted us...

I think I need an OMG, closely followed by a BBQ.

Even more interesting, is the link to an adult webmaster posted over at the Sunbelt blog a short while ago. I won't link to it here, as I don't want to be responsible for priests and holy water being hurled at your monitor.

However - it is interesting that the Yapbrowser guy on that forum has already notched up 811 posts. This would suggest a far greater connection to the slightly sleazier side of the web than their broken "adult version" of their browser would suggest. Translated extract ahoy:

tell entire situation in the order. We were registered in zango several months ago. They concluded agreement and sent to them our program to naproverku. They verified and approved program. In parallel in the course of several months our programmers wrote the cursor of partnerki yapcash.com. The sense of the work of our program consists in the fact that the user through it free of charge examines FKHG. The cursor of partnerki so they did not have time to finish, until now, and recently happened this khuynya. Vobshchem happened the following. Khoster in which temporarily khostilis' our sites used 404 traf for its purposes. As you see there it proved to be entire nador SR ekspy of every kind. We about this did not know. They learned only from the news of &#'yshchy'; On video evidently that of yuzer presses on the reference which it conducts on the nonexistent page. We repeat nikoyem by means we do not relate to SR. To us this simply not necessarily since the project completely of legalen and on us fell down blek of piar.

Now - the application was back up and available for download yesterday, though it didn't actually work. Probably a good thing, in light of what happened last time. However - the Zango software has been removed at the speed of light. Interesting that 180 have made no statement on this one.

Then again, "Uh-oh Spaghettios" probably wouldn't cut it.

"Verified and approved the program"? Great work, guys. Perhaps next time, you might want to test an application after it's gone live, too.

I predict a riot, indeed...