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{{short description|Anti-malware nonprofit organization}}
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'''StopBadware''' was<ref name="mozilla-shutdown">{{cite web | url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657616 | title=Remove the link to StopBadware.org in SafeBrowsing interstitial page | website=bugzilla.mozilla.org | date=2020-08-06 | accessdate=2022-05-25}}</ref> an anti-malware [[nonprofit organization]] focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of [[badware]] websites. It is the successor to '''StopBadware.org''', a project started in 2006 at the [[Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] at [[Harvard University]]. It spun off to become a standalone organization, and dropped the ".org" in its name, in January 2010.<ref>{{cite web |last= Miller |first=Mary Helen |url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/stopbadware-spins-off-from-harvard-u-to-be-a-stand-alone-nonprofit-group/20915 |title=StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U. to Be a Stand-Alone Nonprofit Group |publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=January 28, 2010 |accessdate=January 13, 2011 }}</ref>
'''Stopbadware.org''' is a consumer-oriented [[nonprofit organization]] aimed at fighting malicious software, or "badware". The organization is run by the [[Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] at [[Harvard Law School]], and [[Oxford University]]'s Oxford Internet Institute.
Support is being provided by [[Google]], [[Lenovo]], and [[Sun Microsystems]]. [[Consumer Reports]] WebWatch is serving as an unpaid special advisor.


Its website stopped working around 2021 because of copyright restrictions.<ref name="mozilla-shutdown" />
===Staff===

Directors of "Stopbadware.org" are
== People ==
[[John Palfrey]], Executive Director of the Berkman Center and Harvard Clinical Professor of Law, and [[Jonathan Zittrain]], Harvard Law Visiting Professor and Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. Advisory board members include [[Esther Dyson]] and [[Vint Cerf]].
The founders of StopBadware.org were [[John Palfrey]], then Executive Director of the Berkman Center, and [[Jonathan Zittrain]], then at the [[Oxford Internet Institute]].<ref>{{cite web
[www.stopbadware.eu]
|last=Hines
|first=Matthew
|url=http://securitywatch.eweek.com/adware/stopbadware_researchers_graduate_from_harvard.html
|title=StopBadware Researchers Graduate from Harvard
|publisher=eWeek Security Watch
|date=January 30, 2010
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
|archive-date=January 28, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128121613/http://securitywatch.eweek.com/adware/stopbadware_researchers_graduate_from_harvard.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> Both are now Professors of Law at Harvard University and faculty co-directors of the Berkman Center.

Board members of StopBadware include [[Vint Cerf]] (Chair), [[Esther Dyson]], [[Philippe Courtot]], [[Alex Eckelberry]], Michael Barrett, Brett McDowell, Eric Davis, and Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware's former executive director.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/board
|title=Board of Directors
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> John Palfrey, Ari Schwartz, John Morris, [[Paul Mockapetris]], and [[Mike Shaver]] formerly served on the Board.

== Supporters ==
StopBadware was funded by corporate and individual donations. Some of its current partners include [[Google]], [[Mozilla Corporation|Mozilla]], [[PayPal]], [[Qualys]], [[Verisign]], [[Verizon]], and [[Yandex]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/partners
|title=Supporting Organizations
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}</ref>
Google, GFI Software, and NSFocus participate as data providers in the organization's Badware Website Clearinghouse (see below). Previous supporters include [[AOL]], [[Lenovo]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Trend Micro]], and [[MySpace]]. [[Consumer Reports]] WebWatch, a now-defunct part of [[Consumers Union]], served as an unpaid special advisor while StopBadware.org was a project at the Berkman Center.

== Activities ==
StopBadware's focus was on fighting "badware by working to strengthen the entire Web ecosystem." In pursuit of this some of the organization's activities include maintaining a badware website clearinghouse, acting as an independent reviewer of blacklisted sites, website owner and user education, and a "We Stop Badware" program for Web hosts.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/what-we-do
|title=What We Do
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> In June 2012 StopBadware launched the Ads Integrity Alliance with support from founding members AOL, [[Facebook]], Google, the [[Interactive Advertising Bureau|Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)]], and [[Twitter]]. The Alliance is a resource for online ad platforms seeking to protect users from deceptive or harmful ads.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.adsintegrityalliance.org/
|title=Ads Integrity Alliance
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> The organization receives data from its data providers and maintains a searchable clearinghouse (Badware Website Clearinghouse) of URLs blacklisted by those data providers.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/clearinghouse
|title=Badware Website Clearinghouse
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> StopBadware's independent review process gives webmasters the option to request removal from data providers' blacklists and is intended to function as "due process" for webmasters whose sites have been listed as bad.<ref name="Mills">{{cite web
|last=Mills
|first=Elinor
|url=http://news.cnet.com/stopbadware.org-the-place-to-appeal-a-google-malware-warning/
|title=StopBadware.org, the place to appeal a Google malware warning
|publisher=CNET Security News
|date=February 2, 2009
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/request-review
|title=Request a Review
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> StopBadware maintains a community forum, BadwareBusters.org,<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://badwarebusters.org/main/about
|title = About
|publisher = BadwareBusters.org
|accessdate = January 13, 2011
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110101014020/https://badwarebusters.org/main/about
|archivedate = January 1, 2011
}}
</ref> which includes an online form for reporting badware URLs encountered by the community.

StopBadware also aggregated badware statistics,<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/top-50
|title=AS Report – Top 50 by Number of Reported URLs
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> advocates for [[consumer protection]] in public policy, and publishes advisory documents (software guidelines,<ref name="currentguidelines">{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/guidelines
|title=Guidelines
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref> best practices for web hosting providers<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/we-stop-badware
|title=Web Hosting Best Practices
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref>) compiled with input from the organization's working groups.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://stopbadware.org/home/working_groups
|title = Working Groups.
|publisher = StopBadware
|accessdate = January 13, 2011
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101128001544/http://stopbadware.org/home/working_groups
|archivedate = November 28, 2010
}}
</ref>


==Defining "badware"==
==Defining "badware"==

[[Image:Badwarelogo.png|right|frame|Symbol used by Stopbadware to identify "badware"]]
=== Originally ===
Stopbadware.org defines "badware" as follows:

StopBadware.org originally, in 2006, defined "badware" as follows:
# If the application acts deceptively or irreversibly.
# If the application acts deceptively or irreversibly.
# If the application engages in potentially objectionable behavior without:
# If the application engages in potentially objectionable behavior without:
#* First, prominently disclosing to the user that it will engage in such behavior, in clear and non-technical language, and
#* First, prominently disclosing to the user that it will engage in such behavior, in clear and non-technical language, and
#* Then, obtaining the user's affirmative consent to that aspect of the application. [http://www.stopbadware.org/home/guidelines]
#* Then, obtaining the user's affirmative consent to that aspect of the application.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stopbadware.org/home/guidelines |date=April 7, 2006 |title=Stop Badware Software Guidelines |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060407013449/http://www.stopbadware.org/home/guidelines |archivedate=April 7, 2006 }}</ref>


The original mission was to "provide tools and information that assist industry and policymakers in meeting their responsibility to protect users from badware, and that help users protect themselves."<ref>{{cite web
Stopbadware takes the position that software is badware if it does certain prohibited things, despite any disclamer in an [[EULA]] or purported consent by the user. "Silently downloading" and
|url=http://stopbadware.org/
"Installing additional software without informing the user of the identity and purpose of that software (bundling)" are examples of such prohibited behavior.
|title=Main Page
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref> StopBadware took the position that software is badware if it does certain prohibited things, despite any disclaimer in an [[EULA]] or purported consent by the user. "Silently downloading" and "Installing additional software without informing the user of the identity and purpose of that software (bundling)" are examples of such prohibited behavior. StopBadware investigated reports of improper behavior by programs, and offered vendors the opportunity to reply to their findings.


=== In the 2010s ===
[[Image:Badwareunderinvestigation.png|right|thumb|110px|Symbol used for "badware" under investigation]]
Stopbadware investigates reports of improper behavior by programs, and may offer vendors the opportunity to reply to the findings of Stopbadware. The "Cross and Hourglass" symbol to the right is used to designate programs where problems have been found but the vendor claims to be attempting to remedy the problem.


StopBadware focused on web-based malware and defined badware as "software that fundamentally disregards a user's choice about how his or her computer or network connection will be used." This includes viruses, Trojans, rootkits, botnets, spyware, scareware, and many other types of [[malware]]. A badware website is a website that helps distribute badware, either intentionally or because it has been compromised.<ref>{{cite web
[[Image:Badwarecaution.png|right|thumb|110px|Caution symbol for software with bad, but disclosed, behavior.]] Stopbadware uses a yellow "Caution" logo to indicate "applications that have behaviors that users may find objectionable, but that clearly inform users of those behaviors during installation". This covers the case where an [[End User License Agreement]] purports to allow the application to perform undesirable behavior.
|url=https://www.stopbadware.org/badware
|title=What is Badware
|publisher=StopBadware
|accessdate=January 19, 2013
}}
</ref>


== Google and StopBadware ==
For comparison, see the "Trusted Download" standards [http://www.truste.org/pdf/program_requirements.pdf] proposed by [[TrustE]] for [[adware]] and [[spyware]].
There was a common misconception that StopBadware blacklists websites and that Google uses this blacklist to protect their users. In fact, Google's [[Google Safe Browsing|Safe Browsing initiative]] uses automated systems to identify and blacklist websites.<ref>{{cite web
|last=Ballard
|first=Lucas
|url=http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/show-me-malware.html
|title=Show Me the Malware!
|publisher=CNET Security News
|date=October 12, 2009
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref> This blacklist is used by Google to warn users before they visit potentially dangerous sites. The Firefox web browser and other applications also use Google's Safe Browsing API to warn their users based on the same blacklist.


The confusion is likely due to the close relationship between Google and StopBadware. Google links to StopBadware from their interstitial warning pages.<ref>{{cite web
==Google and Badware==
|url=http://serpguard.com/faq1/
The Google search engine is now teaming up with many antivirus companies to warn users of the search engine from going to sites that have been anonymously reported to distribute badware. When a user searches for a site which has been reported, Google warns the user and only lets them enter by inputting the site URL in the box on their browser. This feature cannot be disabled by the user, and the operator of the website may not be informed about the block. The anonymous reporting together with the slow processing of complaints has caused complaints by some site operators targeted by Google [http://misterpoll.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/google-stopbadwareorg-internet-gestapo/].
|title=What is the Google Safe Browsing Blacklist?
|publisher=SerpGuard website
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref> The link (now defunct) directed users to StopBadware's educational content about badware;<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?&answer=45449&hl=en
|title=Suspicious results and strange behavior: Results labeled 'This site may harm your computer.
|publisher=Google Web Search Help results
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref> it also pointed webmasters to StopBadware's independent review process so site owners can request removal from Google's blacklist.<ref name="Mills"/> StopBadware's Badware Website Clearinghouse also listed websites blacklisted by Google.

Google uses automated systems to search for websites that distribute badware, and issues warnings about websites on which malicious activity is detected.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf |title=The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware. |first=Niels |last=Provos |author2=McNamee, Dean |author3=Mavrommatis, Panayiotis |author4=Wang, Ke |author5= Modadugu, Nagendra |publisher=USENIX |date=April 2007 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Things |accessdate=January 13, 2011}}</ref> When a user tries to access one of these sites, that user is redirected to an interstitial page wherein Google warns the user of the detected malicious activity.<ref>{{cite web
|last=Gabe
|first=Glenn
|url=http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yes-youre-an-attack-site-that-contains-malware-now-heres-what-to-do-about-it/10035/
|title=Yes, You're An Attack Site That Contains Malware, Now Here's What To Do About It
|publisher=Search Engine Journal
|date=April 22, 2009
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref> Google attempts to notify site owners when blacklisting a website.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=163633
|title=About malware and hacked sites
|publisher=Google Webmaster Tools Help results
|accessdate=January 13, 2011
}}
</ref>

On February 2, 2009, for the duration of approximately one hour, all sites were temporarily listed as "potentially harmful to [ones] computer".<ref>[https://www.cnet.com/news/google-warns-entire-internet-is-malware/ Google warns entire Internet is malware] – "For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow."</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Malware]]
* [[Malware]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
==External links==
* [http://stopbadware.org/ StopBadware website]
* [https://www.stopbadware.org/ StopBadware website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102200720/https://www.stopbadware.org/ |date=2021-11-02 }}
* [https://www.badwarebusters.org/ BadwareBusters, StopBadware's online community] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121155340/http://badwarebusters.org/ |date=2021-11-21 }}
* [http://stopbadware.org/home/reports Current list of "badware"]
{{Consumer protection}}
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901494.html "Google sponsors spyware warning project", Washington Post, August 9, 2006]
* [http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/08/29/group_hits_aol_for_spyware_sins "Group Hits AOL for Spyware Sins", Boston Globe, August 29, 2006]
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[[Category:Organizations established in 2006]]
[[nl:StopBadware.org]]
[[Category:Consumer rights organizations]]
[[Category:Privacy organizations]]
[[Category:Information technology organizations based in North America]]
[[Category:Organizations based in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Harvard Law School]]

Latest revision as of 14:10, 30 September 2023

StopBadware
Founded2006
FounderJohn Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain
Dissolved2020
Type501(c)(3)
Location
Key people
Vint Cerf, Esther Dyson
Websitewww.stopbadware.org[dead link]

StopBadware was[1] an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. It is the successor to StopBadware.org, a project started in 2006 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It spun off to become a standalone organization, and dropped the ".org" in its name, in January 2010.[2]

Its website stopped working around 2021 because of copyright restrictions.[1]

People[edit]

The founders of StopBadware.org were John Palfrey, then Executive Director of the Berkman Center, and Jonathan Zittrain, then at the Oxford Internet Institute.[3] Both are now Professors of Law at Harvard University and faculty co-directors of the Berkman Center.

Board members of StopBadware include Vint Cerf (Chair), Esther Dyson, Philippe Courtot, Alex Eckelberry, Michael Barrett, Brett McDowell, Eric Davis, and Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware's former executive director.[4] John Palfrey, Ari Schwartz, John Morris, Paul Mockapetris, and Mike Shaver formerly served on the Board.

Supporters[edit]

StopBadware was funded by corporate and individual donations. Some of its current partners include Google, Mozilla, PayPal, Qualys, Verisign, Verizon, and Yandex.[5] Google, GFI Software, and NSFocus participate as data providers in the organization's Badware Website Clearinghouse (see below). Previous supporters include AOL, Lenovo, Sun Microsystems, Trend Micro, and MySpace. Consumer Reports WebWatch, a now-defunct part of Consumers Union, served as an unpaid special advisor while StopBadware.org was a project at the Berkman Center.

Activities[edit]

StopBadware's focus was on fighting "badware by working to strengthen the entire Web ecosystem." In pursuit of this some of the organization's activities include maintaining a badware website clearinghouse, acting as an independent reviewer of blacklisted sites, website owner and user education, and a "We Stop Badware" program for Web hosts.[6] In June 2012 StopBadware launched the Ads Integrity Alliance with support from founding members AOL, Facebook, Google, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and Twitter. The Alliance is a resource for online ad platforms seeking to protect users from deceptive or harmful ads.[7] The organization receives data from its data providers and maintains a searchable clearinghouse (Badware Website Clearinghouse) of URLs blacklisted by those data providers.[8] StopBadware's independent review process gives webmasters the option to request removal from data providers' blacklists and is intended to function as "due process" for webmasters whose sites have been listed as bad.[9][10] StopBadware maintains a community forum, BadwareBusters.org,[11] which includes an online form for reporting badware URLs encountered by the community.

StopBadware also aggregated badware statistics,[12] advocates for consumer protection in public policy, and publishes advisory documents (software guidelines,[13] best practices for web hosting providers[14]) compiled with input from the organization's working groups.[15]

Defining "badware"[edit]

Originally[edit]

StopBadware.org originally, in 2006, defined "badware" as follows:

  1. If the application acts deceptively or irreversibly.
  2. If the application engages in potentially objectionable behavior without:
    • First, prominently disclosing to the user that it will engage in such behavior, in clear and non-technical language, and
    • Then, obtaining the user's affirmative consent to that aspect of the application.[16]

The original mission was to "provide tools and information that assist industry and policymakers in meeting their responsibility to protect users from badware, and that help users protect themselves."[17] StopBadware took the position that software is badware if it does certain prohibited things, despite any disclaimer in an EULA or purported consent by the user. "Silently downloading" and "Installing additional software without informing the user of the identity and purpose of that software (bundling)" are examples of such prohibited behavior. StopBadware investigated reports of improper behavior by programs, and offered vendors the opportunity to reply to their findings.

In the 2010s[edit]

StopBadware focused on web-based malware and defined badware as "software that fundamentally disregards a user's choice about how his or her computer or network connection will be used." This includes viruses, Trojans, rootkits, botnets, spyware, scareware, and many other types of malware. A badware website is a website that helps distribute badware, either intentionally or because it has been compromised.[18]

Google and StopBadware[edit]

There was a common misconception that StopBadware blacklists websites and that Google uses this blacklist to protect their users. In fact, Google's Safe Browsing initiative uses automated systems to identify and blacklist websites.[19] This blacklist is used by Google to warn users before they visit potentially dangerous sites. The Firefox web browser and other applications also use Google's Safe Browsing API to warn their users based on the same blacklist.

The confusion is likely due to the close relationship between Google and StopBadware. Google links to StopBadware from their interstitial warning pages.[20] The link (now defunct) directed users to StopBadware's educational content about badware;[21] it also pointed webmasters to StopBadware's independent review process so site owners can request removal from Google's blacklist.[9] StopBadware's Badware Website Clearinghouse also listed websites blacklisted by Google.

Google uses automated systems to search for websites that distribute badware, and issues warnings about websites on which malicious activity is detected.[22] When a user tries to access one of these sites, that user is redirected to an interstitial page wherein Google warns the user of the detected malicious activity.[23] Google attempts to notify site owners when blacklisting a website.[24]

On February 2, 2009, for the duration of approximately one hour, all sites were temporarily listed as "potentially harmful to [ones] computer".[25]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Remove the link to StopBadware.org in SafeBrowsing interstitial page". bugzilla.mozilla.org. 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  2. ^ Miller, Mary Helen (January 28, 2010). "StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U. to Be a Stand-Alone Nonprofit Group". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  3. ^ Hines, Matthew (January 30, 2010). "StopBadware Researchers Graduate from Harvard". eWeek Security Watch. Archived from the original on January 28, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  4. ^ "Board of Directors". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  5. ^ "Supporting Organizations". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  6. ^ "What We Do". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  7. ^ "Ads Integrity Alliance". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  8. ^ "Badware Website Clearinghouse". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  9. ^ a b Mills, Elinor (February 2, 2009). "StopBadware.org, the place to appeal a Google malware warning". CNET Security News. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  10. ^ "Request a Review". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  11. ^ "About". BadwareBusters.org. Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  12. ^ "AS Report – Top 50 by Number of Reported URLs". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  13. ^ "Guidelines". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  14. ^ "Web Hosting Best Practices". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  15. ^ "Working Groups". StopBadware. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  16. ^ "Stop Badware Software Guidelines". April 7, 2006. Archived from the original on April 7, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  17. ^ "Main Page". StopBadware. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  18. ^ "What is Badware". StopBadware. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  19. ^ Ballard, Lucas (October 12, 2009). "Show Me the Malware!". CNET Security News. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  20. ^ "What is the Google Safe Browsing Blacklist?". SerpGuard website. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  21. ^ "Suspicious results and strange behavior: Results labeled 'This site may harm your computer". Google Web Search Help results. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  22. ^ Provos, Niels; McNamee, Dean; Mavrommatis, Panayiotis; Wang, Ke; Modadugu, Nagendra (April 2007). "The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware." (PDF). Encyclopedia of Things. USENIX. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  23. ^ Gabe, Glenn (April 22, 2009). "Yes, You're An Attack Site That Contains Malware, Now Here's What To Do About It". Search Engine Journal. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  24. ^ "About malware and hacked sites". Google Webmaster Tools Help results. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  25. ^ Google warns entire Internet is malware – "For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow."

External links[edit]

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