StopBadware Celebrates its second year!
StopBadware is happy to announce that we have now been helping keep you safe for two year!
See our blog post, and press release
StopBadware labels RealPlayer as badware
StopBadware has released an alert identifying RealPlayer as badware.
See our blog post here,
our press release here,
and the complete report here.
My SHC Community report released
StopBadware has released a report about the My SHC Community tracking application distributed to selected users of www.myshccommunity.com by Sears
Holdings Corporation, the parent company of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Kmart. See our blog post here, our press release here,
and the complete report here
"Trends in Badware 2007" released |
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StopBadware is proud to release our 2007 update on the state of badware on the web - "Trends in Badware 2007: What internet users need to know." The short report is a plain-English explanation of badware threats to user privacy and security, based on our research over the past year. It explains online security issues such as compromised websites, social networking scams, and other badware trends that pose significant risk to the average internet user.
For many visitors to StopBadware.org, threats such as legitimate websites that have been hacked to distribute badware may not be news. We're hoping our security-conscious visitors will help us spread the word to those who aren't yet aware of the dangers. "Trends in Badware" is written with nontechnical internet users in mind - folks who love using the internet, but who may not yet have learned about newer badware threats.
As StopBadware's co-director John Palfrey says in our press release, "Now, users can get infected by simply browsing a reputable website or clicking on links posted to their favorite blogs or social networks. We want to make sure that consumers have up-to-date information on emerging trends so they know what to look for when online."
StopBadware's mission is to help educate consumers and average internet users about badware, and to help the community fight back. We hope that "Trends in Badware 2007" can help clear the fog around online dangers and empower ordinary internet users to take charge of their computers' security.
You can download "Trends in Badware 2007" here.
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Welcome to our new sponsors!
StopBadware has been proud to count amongst our sponsors some of the leading companies in the technology industry: Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems. Their support has been critical to StopBadware’s success in fighting badware through dissemination of research and management of the Clearinghouse appeals process.
We are now excited to welcome two additional sponsors: VeriSign and PayPal. Like our other partners, these two companies are committed to addressing security issues so that the web can be a safer place for all of us. With their help, StopBadware will continue to be an objective source of information about badware and those who spread it.
Safer Searching (Updated on January 22, 2007)
We're entering a new phase here at StopBadware.org.
Google -- which
is one of our partners -- is now presenting people with a warning before they visit websites
that
Google's testing indicates cause users to be infected with badware. Google also reports these sites
have been reported
to StopBadware.org as sites that distribute badware. These
warnings currently link to a general page
on StopBadware.org, but
in cases where we subsequently research a site
as we finish researching sites,
we'll replace the general page with one of our individual website reports (see an example
here
). Hopefully this next step will bring us that much closer
to fulfilling our mission of providing people with reliable, objective information about
downloadable applications in order to help them make better choices.
If there are sites and applications you'd like us to check out before you use them,
let us know here.
For an update on the Safer Searching project and Google's warning pages,
click here
or visit our FAQ.
The "Badware" problem.
We've all seen it happen: you or someone you know has downloaded something from the internet that seemed harmless enough at the time. Next thing you know, the computer has slowed to a crawl. Pop-up advertising starts to appear out of nowhere. Private information gets sent to some company you've never heard of. And the worst part? Trying
to uninstall the software sometimes makes the problem worse. Find out more...
Help us fight back!
Join those who have already helped us fight badware:
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