This morning, it seems that many (all?) Google search results led to a warning page meant to be associated with sites that have malware on them. We at StopBadware are partners with Google, among others, working hard to fight malicious code together. Our role, as researchers, is to help set the criteria for what constitutes … Read more
StopBadware and the rest of the Net community trying to keep the environment clean of bad code scored a good win this week in the public interest. The StopBadware team and others were all over a software update from Apple that operated as badware, offering new software installations disguised as product updates. StopBadware blogged about … Read more
Tonight, we at StopBadware are releasing a report that finds that Sears Holding Corporation’s MySHC Community application is badware. (We also blogged our pending review of the application a few days ago.) Our concerns are these: 1) The software does not fully, accurately, clearly, and conspicuously disclose the principal and significant features and functionality of … Read more
Have fun and help raise awareness about how the Internet really works — and possibly earn a trip to DC and $5000 if you’re really good at it! The Berkman Center, StopBadware, Google, Medium, and EDVentures present Cookie Crumbles. It’s a fun contest for people who like to make short, humorous (yet meaningful) videos and … Read more
We have the great honor of hosting the ASC‘s third big public meeting here at the Harvard Law School. We’re grateful to Ari Schwartz and Ross Schulman for bringing the meeting to our campus. We’re proudly a member of ASC through our StopBadware project, which has grown into one of the biggest and most interesting … Read more
Three recent conversations I’ve been part of offered a contrast in styles and views on intellectual property rights across the Atlantic. First, the Fordham International IP conference, which Prof. Hugh Hanson puts on each year (in New York, NY, USA); the terrific classes in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property that Prof. Urs Gasser teaches … Read more
Today, we at StopBadware, along with our friends at the Center for Democracy and Technology, are filing our first complaint to the FTC about a badware application, called FastMP3Search Plugin. As Christina Olson put it on the SBW blog, we are highlighting “FastMP3Search.com.ar for distributing badware to unsupecting Internet users. FastMP3Search.com.ar is a site that … Read more
Bravo to the FTC staff who won a decision to shut down Team Taylor Made, a spyware application that we highlighted earlier this year at StopBadware.org.
A few days ago, at StopBadware.org, we released a report on AOL 9.0, the free software on offer from one of the giants of the Internet industry. The back-story on this matter is that we wrestled hard with the right way to release this report. We followed our research process rigorously, following tips and leads … Read more
Our project that names names of code that users should look out for, StopBadware, has released its latest instance of an application that falls outside of the scope of our guidelines. We think computer users should beware of the Jessica Simpson Screensaver (in case the name didn’t give it away to you already). The idea … Read more