Google backs anti-spyware resource

Google, Sun Microsystems, a Chinese computer company, prominent universities across the

United States

and consumer advocacy groups are working to help identify the makers and providers of Spyware. Aiming to be an all in one stop for information spyware removal, detection, and prevention this ambitious site will give consumers the ability to decide if it is safe to download a program and should they get infected provide the resources to resolve the infection.

I think this is great step forward for while there are a number of sites spread out across the net with snippets of information such as startup programs, and bhos; and rouge anti-spyware applications, there are no all-in-one sites that are easily navigable.

Still in creation stages the site http://www.StopBadware.org will not be available until the end of February. If you go to the site now you will be greeted with the default ruby on rails page which is a good indicator that they are building the website in Ajax. With buy in from large internet technology corporations, universities, and consumer advocacy groups this could be an invaluable resource in the future.

 

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[Luis Villa]

We're actually live now, though some of the content will be coming out in pieces. Nothing AJAX-y for now- we chose Ruby mostly because of the rapid development model. My bad for not covering up the default Ruby page before the news leaked ;)