StopBadware.org

Sep 5, 2007 at 6:45 PM
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StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute are leading this initiative with the support of several prominent tech companies, including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems. Consumer Reports WebWatch is serving as an unpaid special advisor.

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I think it's great that a website like this exist. I can't count the number of times I have visited a website only to find out later that badware was installed on my computer when I did so or to have to stop the website from downloading badware repeatedly before I even had the chance to leave the website. Being a webmaster, I think it's great that you are helping out not just people who search the web but webmasters as well in keeping websites and computers safe from badware.

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Sep 16, 2007
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Thanks again for a great link. Do you use the McAfee SiteAdvisor? (I like the way it integrates into Google. I'm using the free version of the tool.) I've also signed in as a reviewer to report all the dodgy sites I see. Too bad this tool is not available for mobile phones.

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