Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the keeping-things-clean dept.
peterfa writes "Sun and Google have teamed up and started a project called Stop Badware. This project aims to expose all the spyware and adware bundled in software and the companies that are responsible. While it's funded by Sun and Google, the research will be done by Oxford and Harvard."
lets hope it works
by
loserhead
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we'll hafta see if this is more of a silver bullet or the "magic bullet"
Stop Badware, bad bad badware... go to your cage!
by
digitaldc
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To some extent the Stop Badware project will repeat work done by some anti-spyware campaigners such as Suzi Turner and Eric Howes who maintain a list of fake products that users should be wary of.
Wow, this really reminds me of my last trip to the Dollar Store.
-- He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
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we'll hafta see if this is more of a silver bullet or the "magic bullet"
To some extent the Stop Badware project will repeat work done by some anti-spyware campaigners such as Suzi Turner and Eric Howes who maintain a list of fake products that users should be wary of.
Wow, this really reminds me of my last trip to the Dollar Store.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
"Stop Badware"? That's the worst name since MacBook Pro.
considering the Chinese learn engrish about as well as our Indian friends...
i'm glad you know what you are talking about.