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Odd Bedfellows in the Anti-Spyware Biz

30.Jan.06 | Leave a Comment

Have you seen SpywareTesting.org yet? There’s not much there, but some of what is there is rather interesting. For instance, the Partners Page. Did you ever think you’d see some of those all working cooperatively together? (ICSA Labs/Cybertrust, McAfee, Symantec Corp, Trend Micro and Thompson Cyber Security Labs).
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Google is now going to help us with Spyware

25.Jan.06 | Leave a Comment

From Putting a Stop to Spyware, it seems that Google is off to a new crusade.  While the cynics will certainly boo and hiss, I think any time any company takes up this crusade it is a “good thing”(tm).
I suppose now I need to figure out why we’ve coined a new term (badware), but the [...]

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