Monthly Archives: June 2009

New partner, new site reports

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Maxim Weinstein

We’re very pleased to announce that, as of today, Sunbelt Software has joined Google as a data partner, providing updated data about badware websites to our Clearinghouse. (See the press release.) Sunbelt’s research director, Eric Howes, has helped us out … Continue reading →

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China’s Green Dam is badware and so much more

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Maxim Weinstein

StopBadware assisted the Open Net Initiative in evaluating China’s Green Dam filtering software, which the Chinese government recently mandated be installed on every new PC in the country. The software violates our guidelines due to a lack of disclosure about … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Morro to proxy Internet traffic? Not likely.

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Maxim Weinstein

A blog post at PC World by Frank Ohlhorst implies that Microsoft’s forthcoming free anti-malware product, Morro, will proxy users’ Internet traffic: Morro will work by routing all of a users Internet traffic to a Microsoft datacenter, where the Morro … Continue reading →

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