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Anti-spyware project helps users
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:32:16 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Sebastien Duval <duval () grad nii ac jp> Date: January 26, 2006 11:38:36 PM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Anti-spyware project helps users For IP if you wish. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4649958.stm
Anti-spyware project helps users Hi-tech firms are setting up a project to help users spot if downloads are infested with spyware and adware. Funded by Google and Sun the Stop Badware project will expose the hidden extras that popular software, such as file-sharing programs, often has inside it. Eventually the project hopes to make tools to help clean up infested PCs. [...] Although funded by Google, Sun and Chinese computer firm Lenovo, the research will be carried out by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Advice will also be provided by Consumer Reports WebWatch. [...] The project aims to produce its first reports in February.
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