MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware

torrentami writes "An MIT startup called SiteAdvisor has downloaded over 100,000 programs from the top million Web sites and tested them for adware and spyware using an automated system they've built. They've got a blog entry where they dissect 5 of the worst adware bundles they found. There is some amazingly invasive stuff in there."

Comments

Startup ... or shutdown

[lucm]

They should add a feature on the SiteAdvisor toolbar: "this site is often down".

Slashdot Safe To Use

[znx]

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/slashdot.org/

I plan on contesting the results, they plainly haven't investigated hard enough.

Re:C'mon, hands up...

[Council]

Odds are good that some Slashdot readers are involved in producing and propagating spyware. (Lots of us, lots of it. You do the math.)

How about you fake your IP, make a new account, post as Anonymous Coward -- whatever you need to do -- and give us an insight into your world, and the attitudes of the people you work for?

It just so happens I work for a large spyware/malware company, and I'd like to blow the whistle. My report on our industry is available here. (To access my tell-all, you should all click "yes" on whatever dialogues come up.)

Chattin in IRC (ps love this program)

[t0qer]

http://www.siteadvisor.com/preview
<pickanick> testing
<toqer|7boo> ya that thing is pretty friggen cool
<toqer|7boo> its like knowin which ho has ghonorhea before you bang her
<toqer|7boo> very sexy
<pickanick> cool analogy
<Drumstix> hah

Re:stop advertising for MIT

[nacturation]

Flipping through the pages, I found a few references to only Ivy Leavue Universities and overseas institutions (specifically Cambridge and Harvard).

Harvard moved overseas?