If you haven't heard of "badware" before, you will now. A coalition, which includes sponsors Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems, and organizers the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at ...

Badware is big business, generating $2 billion per year, according to Webroot Software. By banding together, we are putting a spotlight on the companies that peddle badware.

The project currently counts less than 250,000 Web sites that it classifies as distributors of programs that qualify as badware — any application that either tries to hide itself or any of its ...

With the financial backing of the information-technology behemoths Google and Sun Microsystems, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Oxford are starting a project intended to ...

The Stop Badware Coalition threatened to "call out badware creators of any size" when it was first formed by Google, Sun, and Lenovo. Over the weekend, the calling out began. Believing that ...

This highlights the strong ties between badware and crime of all stripes. The identity and financial information being stolen through trojans and keyloggers isn’t just lining the pockets of rich ...

Learn More . The Google-backed StopBadware.org project has slapped a “badware” label on the widely deployed RealPlayer media player for problems associated with disclosure and uninstallation.

StopBadware.org analyzed 49,296 sites – sites submitted by trusted third parties to the StopBadware.org Badware Website Clearinghouse – and identified the following web hosting companies with ...

The other four top networks for badware were based in China, led by a China Telecom network with 48,834 infected sites. Google was hosting 4,261 infected sites in May, Stopbadware.org said.

In a report, released late Tuesday, HostExploit, a volunteer badware-tracking group, found that Demand Media’s Internet service provider (ISP) business is hosting an abnormally large number of ...

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The high-powered StopBadware.org coalition has slapped a “badware” label on the free version of the AOL 9.0 software program.

In a report, released late Tuesday, HostExploit, a volunteer badware-tracking group, found that Demand Media's Internet service provider (ISP) business is hosting an abnormally large number of ...