Free Website to List Programs with Spyware

[AnnInLa]

(sorry if this is a duplicate post, but it is important info)

Free website to list programs with spyware
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
Here's a new way to attack spyware: embarrass its purveyors.

A free website (StopBadware.org) launching Wednesday plans to provide a list of programs that contain spyware and other malicious software. It will also identify companies that develop the programs and distribute them on the Internet.

Consumers can then decide if a program is safe to download.

"For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet," says John Palfrey, who heads the Berkman Center of Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and is spearheading the project. "What we're after is a more accountable Internet."

The initiative is being run by Harvard and the Oxford Institute and is backed by high-tech heavyweights including Google and Sun Microsystems. Consumer Reports' WebWatch is serving as a special adviser.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-01-25-spyware_x.htm?csp=15

[FloridaPat]

1. Thanks

[Mutley]

2. But what if StopBadware.org itself is just a front for spyware?

:tinfoilhat:


:scared:



:D

[hang a left]

3. That was my first thought...

What times we live in.

[Mutley]

4. I was half kidding...

but really, that would be a brilliant maneuver on the part of those who spread spyware, would it not?

[xultar]

5. You have a point but I will trust the cause.

[Mutley]

7. I'll check them out, too.

I just wanted to play the "party pooper" role for awhile. :P

[xultar]

8. But you don't have the special party pooper ID card. It has to be

passed to you through the secret handshake after toilet paper test.

I've already said to much. The PPclub is a very exclusive club here @ DU. It is mostly secret.
Begging for membership isn't a great way about going to be nominated to be pledge.

But, just between you and me. You're a shoe in. So, don't poop it. Sweat it. :P

[Mutley]

9. I'm looking more for a part time membership

'cause sometimes I wanna be a partier, too.

But put a good word in for my nomination, would ya? :P

[ellenfl]

6. thank you and 'kick'. eom

[Wilms]

10. kick