Wed, Jan 25 2006 6:01
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Google, Sun, others band to fight spyware, adware
A coalition of tech companies, consumer groups and other
organizations hopes to do to companies that spread spyware and adware
what "America's Most Wanted" has done to fugitives--stop them in their
tracks by publicizing their misdeeds.
The newly formed Stop Badware Coalition will publish the names of
companies that it deems are the worst offenders and show how they make
money through unethical marketing practices and fraud.
Joining the coalition are search giant Google, PC maker Lenovo, Sun
Microsystems, Consumer Reports' WebWatch project, the Berkman Center
for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Oxford
Internet Institute in England. Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now Google's
chief Internet evangelist, and Esther Dyson, an investor and editor of
Release 1.0, are among the advisors to the group. (Release 1.0 is owned
by CNET Networks, publisher of News.com.)
CNet
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