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MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ads-burning-need-spybot dept.

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."

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  1. Spyware is bad for your server by Nanite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All that spyware must be killing their server. Slashdotted :)

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  2. Re:Similar by kabz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I dropped into terminal and had to use 'sudo vi /etc/hosts', then it worked. What the hell is this, Debian?!?? ;-)

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