After it conducted additional research into the Storm ‘AdPack’ exploit that it first blogged about last Thursday (May 15), Trend Micro has confirmed two important things to us in conversations over the last several days: 1. Trend sees no indication that Storm is working with, “in cahoots” with, or otherwise connected to Zango (a fact we already knew, but a nice one to have independently verified); and 2. while the Storm exploit attempts to install some piece of our software without first delivering (and receiving) the required notice and consent, those attempts have failed.

In an update at the bottom of its original May 15 blog post, Trend Micro “apologize[s] for the confusion.” We at Zango thank Trend for its close contact with us during these last several days and for its more in-depth analysis since May 15 closing the book on this issue.