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StopBadware to update Software Guidelines

When StopBadware started several years ago, we collaborated with the community and our Applications Working Group to formulate a set of badware guidelines for applications. For the past few years, our Software Guidelines have served us well: they have acted … Continue reading

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Establishing expectations for AV vendors

At StopBadware, we're currently revising our guidelines for badware applications. The goal of these guidelines is to distinguish between applications that are badware (defined as "software that fundamentally disregards a user's choice about how his or her computer or network … Continue reading

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Second call: Draft guidelines for public comment

Periodically, we update our Badware Guidelines to reflect what we have learned from the community and from our work. We have recently put together a draft of our new guidelines for software, and we’d like your feedback. Please let us … Continue reading

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Draft guidelines for public comment

Periodically, we update our Badware Guidelines to reflect what we have learned from the community and from our work. We have recently put together “a draft”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/files/Badware_Guidelines_for_Software_ver_2_draft.pdf of our new guidelines for software, and we’d like your feedback. Please let us … Continue reading

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Naraine: Apple Software Update still badware

ZDNet blogger Ryan Naraine “called us to task”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1335 today for not calling Apple Software Update badware. Last month, we “stopped short”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/17/apple-responds-to-community-concerns of labeling the application badware after Apple made changes to improve the disclosure of applications that were installed under … Continue reading

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