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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. fuck them evil niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    may they all rott in hell, long live community college

  2. lame by jibjibjib · · Score: -1, Troll

    in soviet russia, adware dissects YOU!

  3. Imagine.... by Dark_Archemedes · · Score: 0, Troll

    what a Beowulf Cluster of those site downloaders could do. Would they run on Linux???

  4. This is too much: SiteAdvisor has adware! by bombadier_beetle · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just now installed it for Firefox, and it automatically installed the Yahoo toolbar along with it without asking. Nor was I informed at any point on the web site that the Yahoo toolbar would be included.

    F*ck that. These hypocrites need to eat their own dogfood.

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