[NEWS] MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware

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torrentami writes "An MIT startup called [0]SiteAdvisor has downloaded
over 100,000 programs from the top million Web sites and tested them for
adware and spyware using an automated system they've built. They've got
[1]a blog entry where they dissect 5 of the worst adware bundles they
found. There is some amazingly invasive stuff in there."

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http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/01/15/0141236

Links:
0. http://www.siteadvisor.com/
1. http://blog.siteadvisor.com/2006/01/the_webs_download_disasters_in.html

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