A New Way To Fight Spyware

The latest reports say that over 65% of all home computers are infected with some sort of spyware. And the fight to overcome the battle of keeping our PC's clean seems to be never ending. Three are many programs made to scan your computer and identify potential spyware applications running, but is that enough?

Recently a new web site, stopbadware.org has created a new approach to spyware. Since it can be hard to get rid of the companies that are guilty of creating it, they are creating a database listing of all of them. They feel if we can't make these companies go away, it least they can make them look bad.

According to their site:
StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers make better choices about what they download onto their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware

Check it out at http://www.stopbadware.org