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Not official but an attempt to define these things:

http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/definitions.htm

What is the magic algorithm that determines of a freedom fighter is a terrorist?

Anyway, if you are really interesting in learning people are trying to come up with useful definitions that allow us to make the internet safer: http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/definitions.htm

Labeling software correctly, ie: letting consumers make their own decisions, means we don't need the legal system to get involved except where stuff is fraudulently mislabeled.

You want to write malware, fin

Ironically, both Symantec and the maker of Spybot-Search & Destroy (Safer Networks) are members

http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/about/index.ht m lists the members and includes "safer networking ltd." this is spybot search & destroys parent company. also on the list is lavasoft, who makes ad aware

Why are the people who are known for their anti-spyware and been doing it for years invited? You know, like spybot and ad-aware. Not even trend micro who bought CWShreder and has had it's own anti-spyware product is listed.

I even went to their website [ http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/ ] and couldn't find anything about the members to confirm it.

If you do not have the experts of anty-spyware involved, what good is this one?

• Program generates serial numbers/registration keys. Medium

a. Anti-spyware vendor should join the industry organization http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/index.htm/ for classifying and unifying spyware categorization

b. Offended/accused spyware vendors could use the Vendor Dispute process http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/vend ordispute.htm/

a. Anti-spyware vendor should join the industry organization http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/index.htm/ for classifying and unifying spyware categorization

b. Offended/accused spyware vendors could use the Vendor Dispute process http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/vend ordispute.htm/

In my opinion, the main thing following from the words of Microsoft specialists in the blog, is not the change of name but the fact that the software giant, I think, is about to do the same thing it once did in the browser sector.

"The engine is now moved to a system service ..." means that anti-malware (anti-virus) solution will be built-in in the next Windows. Why I call it anti-virus? Because like some time before the word "virus" was used for almost ALL malicious programs, now they are trying to call them "spyware". Anyone can see it in the Anti-Spyware Coalition site's chapter Examples of Spyware and Potentially Unwanted Technologies (http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/def initions.htm).

Here is another quote from the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog: "The detection mechanisms have also been radically improved by applying to spyware threats all the great detection technology we use in our antivirus engine."

There can be no doubt that Windows Vista is going to incorporate the feature we would usually call anti-virus. Is this "system service" going to be charged or free? This is the question I am worried about.