MSE360 uses our name in vain

In a press release announcing a new privately-funded search engine, MSE360 claims to use data from us to protect its users in its press release:

MSE360 also uses the StopBadware.org API to provide warnings to users when they are about to enter a site which is known to infect the users computers with unwanted programs.

They make a similar claim, without even getting our name right, in their "About MSE360" page:

We really hate junk. But it Virus or Spyware junk! That’s why we use the Badware.org API to provide you with warnings next to spyware sites. If a site will install junk onto your computer then you will see a small bug like image to the left of the search results. This system is still being tested, so don’t forget to also use your anti-virus software as normal!

To be clear, we do not have a public API for access to our data. Google offers the Safe Browsing API for access to their data, which they also make available to us through our Clearinghouse.

A spot check on MSE360 of some sites known to be flagged as bad by Google did not show the promised "small bug like image to the left of the search results," so it’s not apparent that MSE360 is using the Google API, so searcher beware.

[UPDATE: I received an e-mail from Daniel Clarke at MSE360 indicating that the references to StopBadware.org and Badware.org were a mistake by their copy writers, who made the mistaken assumption that their own internal system, which they call "badware" was a short-hand reference to us.]