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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."

6 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Should research better servers by gamepro · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because that got slashdotted rather quickly

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

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

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  3. I'm just pissed I'm nobody's bitch by Quirk · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Who has the time to visit these sites? Other than busting my ass +10 hours a day running faster than I can in the Domain of the Red Queen, I get to visit /., the Reg, 5 web comic sites and read the feeds off a half dozen or so sites. Staying current with mailing lists eats giant chunks of time and the rest of my pitiful life is taken up by refilling my coffee mug.

    You got spyware. I wish I had spyware. I just want the time to be somebody's bitch... /. goatse trolls need not apply.

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  4. Re:What about the rest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am in iraq and it sucks. However, I will be home soon and EAS shortly thereafter.

    FUCK 2/2

  5. 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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  6. Six degrees: A cool new website game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If this ext does nothing else, at least now we can easily play six degrees of separation for websites. Still trying to linking Google to Microsoft.

    Just a side point, how will they made money with this tool? I can only think of some bad ones.