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Announcing StopBadware Stories

StopBadware announced today the launch of StopBadware Stories, a project to collect and share stories about the effects of badware on people’s lives. The project is part of an effort to raise awareness of badware as a problem that affects, … Continue reading

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BadwareBusters.org platform now open source

A couple years ago, we started building a new web platform to serve as the basis for our BadwareBusters.org online community site. One goal of the platform was to be easy to use for computer novices, while incorporating more advanced … Continue reading

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Silent patching works, but at what cost?

Last week, the ZDNet Zero Day blog summarized a report by researchers from Google Switzerland and ETH Zurich as follows: Google’s decision to silently update the Chrome browser — without the user’s knowledge or consent –  has put the company … Continue reading

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BadwareBusters.org removes beta label, launches publicly

StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch are pleased to announce the full public launch of BadwareBusters.org, an online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware, and other malicious software from their computers. Many people have already been helped by … Continue reading

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Updated BadwareBusters.org beta

Awhile back, we announced a public beta of BadwareBusters.org, a collaboration between StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch to offer an online community meeting place in which people could receive and offer help and thoughts about badware. Today we released a … Continue reading

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Introducing BadwareBusters.org (beta)!

StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch today are introducing in beta BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware and other badware from their computers and websites. We¹ve seen from our collective experience that there wasn¹t … Continue reading

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