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Our friends at StopBadware.org are having a conversation about Net security -- an Immune System for the Internet? -- with Vinton Cerf, Paul Mockapetris and Esther Dyson! at the…

The Berkman Center is pleased to share the news that our anti-malware project, StopBadware, is now a non-profit of its own. This is an exciting step for our StopBadware colleagues…

StopBadware, an anti-malware effort started at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, announced today that it has begun operating as a standalone non-profit…

From the StopBadware blog: "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…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — StopBadware.org, the collaborative initiative to combat viruses, spyware, and other bad software, announced today that Sunbelt Software, developer of the…

StopBadware manager Maxim Weinstein cheers the new administration's escalation of cyber security -- including badware prevention -- to a national priority...

Maxim Weinstein, manager of Berkman's StopBadware project, is facilitating a panel today at the annual public workshop of the Anti-Spyware Coalition in Washington, DC. The theme…

Stories about the Conficker worm have been spreading, worm-like, through both online and offline media, while the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has documented an…

From March 23 - April 3, students can apply to work with Berkman as Summer of Code participants.

StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch announced today the full launch of BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help preventing and countering…

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the full launch of BadwareBusters.org, an online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware, and other malicious…

Maxim Weinstein examines the geographic origins of badware on the StopBadware.org blog...

By way of follow up to an active weekend for our colleagues at StopBadware, project manager Max Weinstein has taken some time to answer "What is StopBadware.org?" for newcomers,…

StopBadware.org has teamed up with the good people of Consumer Reports WebWatch to create BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses,…

Over on the StopBadware.org blog, Max Weinstein writes, "The other day, Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post wrote a column about Apple’s tendency to keep its mouth shut rather…

StopBadware.org today released a report analyzing over 200,000 sites reported by Google as exhibiting badware behavior. Over half of the reported infected sites are hosted in…

This week, two heartening tales of the good fight against badware graced the StopBadware.org blog: in dialogue with the SBW team, two companies made corrections to protect…

Thinking about installing the trial version of SellMoSoft's PerformanceOptimizer? Not a good idea! StopBadware has the skinny on this badware gem, deceptive through and through...

From the StopBadware blog... A few weeks ago, the blogosphere raised concerns about the Windows version of Apple Software Update for offering new software installations (e.g.,…

StopBadware releases the results of a recent poll on online safety perceptions, and the results present an intriguing paradox...

XP Antivirus 2008 has it all -- deceptive claims of system vulnerabilities, an automatically running background process -- and it can't be uninstalled with Windows Add/Remove…

Protests in Tibet - and the Chinese crackdown and troop build-up in Lhasa and elsewhere - have dominated headlines this week. China's blocking of YouTube and other measures…

StopBadware.org recently issued an alert identifying RealPlayer as badware. On Tuesday, RealNetworks blogged a response, which StopBadware links to and evaluates...

StopBadware.org, the consumer protection initiative developed to combat badware, today released an alert about RealNetworks, Inc.'s RealPlayer software application. The group…

StopBadware.org, the consumer protection initiative developed to combat badware, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology, today announced they have filed a formal…

Christina Olson & StopBadware staff discussed StopBadware.org, a neighborhood watch for the internet.

Harvard's Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute Unveil StopBadware.org Backed by Google, Lenovo, Sun; Consumer Reports WebWatch Takes Unpaid Special Advisor Role

Berkman Luncheon Series: 5/07/03 - Ben Edelman on Adware and Spyware