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Stories and comments across the archive that link to stopbadware.org.

Stories · 2

  1. AOL 9.0 Called Badware

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the been-called-worse dept. · 295 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "The bad news at AOL keeps coming. First they get in trouble for releasing search data on more than half a million customers, then it gives away security software with a nasty EULA, now its free client software is accused of acting like badware according to Stopbadware.org, the Google-funded rating group."

  2. Google Warns Users About "Unsafe Sites"

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the good-citizenry dept. · 163 comments
    Dynamoo writes "The BBC is reporting that Google will start to warn users about unsafe websites, in particular those that host spyware or have privacy implications. The technology to do this has been developed in partnership with StopBadware, and appears to be an alternative to the popular McAfee SiteAdvisor application. Perhaps this will help curtail slimeware ridden sites from peddling their wares. But it will be interesting to see how Google rates some of its own products, including the potentially risky Google Desktop."