StopBadware researches trends in harmful software and its distribution, and develops collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping malicious software. more >
With the Oxford Internet Institute as a partner and the support of leading tech companies, including Google, Sun, and Lenovo, the Center launched StopBadware.org in January 2006.
Designed as a “neighborhood watch” campaign oriented toward finding collaborative, community-minded solutions to combat destructive applications and programs, StopBadware.org focuses on organizing its community’s technical expertise and the public’s user-knowledge to identify and research ‘badware’ and to raise public awareness. Since its launch, StopBadware.org has received broad community endorsement for its ‘good software’ guidelines and has worked with the public to identify hundreds of destructive applications. StopBadware.org has also issued nearly a dozen reports documenting destructive applications, and distributed them to thousands of people. After being highlighted in StopBadware’s reports, a number of companies worked with StopBadware.org to bring their software into compliance with StopBadware’s ‘good software’ policies, including Zwinky, Freeze.com, and Starware.
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