Stop Badware Nostalgia: Press Coverage 2006

Posted by Laureli Mallek Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:33:00 GMT

As we move into our 3rd year we would like to ruminate on some of the highlights through our years. Starting with 2006 coverage we will move forward to the present day.

Highlights from 2006

StopBadware attracted notice from the beginning. Launching the project combines the efforts of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute with Sun Microsystems, Lenovo, and Google.

Within the first year, StopBadware did not pull punches. Using the badware guidelines as a basis Stop BadWare was able to identify problems in both AOL 9.0 and Kazaa. AOL’s next release responded to many of the concerns in the StopBadware’s report.

In addition to those actions StopBadware has helped to monitor to spread of malignant software by testing and screening thousands of URLs.

We had good beginnings and have made substantial progress during the following years. Next week I will spotlight some news from 2007.