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AOL 9.0 Called Badware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 28, 2006 @05:00AM from the been-called-worse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The bad news at AOL keeps coming. First they get in trouble for releasing search data on more than half a million customers, then it gives away security software with a nasty EULA, now its free client software is accused of acting like badware according to Stopbadware.org, the Google-funded rating group."

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Re:Badware? by ZachPruckowski · 2006-08-28 05:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

Well, it's a nice way to sum up adware, viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, spyware, and all that stuff. It's easy to understand. Joe Schmoe might not know what a rootkit is, but he's got a good idea that "badware" or "malware" (my prefered term) is not something he wants on his computer.