[IP] Anti-spyware project helps users

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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.

--
Sebastien Duval, currently in Tokyo (Japan)
Ph.D. student <http://www.soken.ac.jp>


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