The internet is a dangerous place, and Spyware is making it worse. As a knowledge worker and System analyst (Windows platform) There is no escape for me from Windows and IE and anythine else MS publishes. If I could, I'd install Linux and openoffice and hope that I never wanted a cool new peripherial device, but since that is a pipe dream...
Microsoft, Washington state attorney general claim company's product actually makes computers less secure.
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Microsoft and the Washington state attorney general have filed lawsuits against antispyware software vendor Secure Computer, alleging that the White Plains, New York, company's Spyware Cleaner software not only fails to remove spyware as advertised, but makes changes to users' computers that make them less secure.
A jointly run site will initially act as a clearinghouse for information about so-called badware, but the group also promised a more proactive role.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb News
Jan 25, 2006 03:13 PM
Several technology companies, consumer groups, and academics banded together Wednesday to form an organization that will shine a light on shady spyware and adware to call attention to their transgressions.
The group, which calls itself StopBadware.org, is headed by Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute, backed by Google, Sun Microsystems, and Lenovo, and assisted by Consumer Reports' WebWatch.
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