Neighbourhood Watch to fight 'badware'
New initiative aimed at fighting spyware, malware and deceptive adware.
Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems have pledged their support for a new
initiative aimed at fighting spyware, malware and deceptive adware. The Neighbourhood Watch-style campaign
Stopbadware.org is being led by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in the US,
and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute in the UK.
The effort aims to provide clear and objective information about
downloadable applications so that consumers can make informed choices about
what they download onto their systems.
Stopbadware.org will gather stories
and data from users, and use that data to inform its research efforts. The
Stopbadware.org website invites less technical users to submit stories
about their experiences with 'badware', as well as appealing to those who
are more technically-aware to submit technical data reports. Those behind
the campaign also plan to write standards and testing procedures to define
'badware', and spotlight the worst offenders with the help of the
anti-malware community.
Full details of the project can be found at
http://www.stopbadware.org/.
01 February 2006
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