Microsoft's Spyware Strategy

New article on the Security at Home site about spyware:

Microsoft's strategy for addressing spyware and other potentially unwanted software

Microsoft's vision for anti-spyware is that customers should be empowered to make informed decisions about the software that installs and runs on their computers. Microsoft will take steps toward this vision by making it easier for customers to gain insight into what's running on the system, to better discern good software from bad software, and to block and remove spyware from a PC.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 24, 2004
  This is a great move from Microsoft.
  
  Spyware is usually not Microsoft's fault (except when they use a vulnerability to install), but it's annoying and it's one of the biggest problems for today's "computing experience". I hope this helps
• Anonymous
  December 25, 2004
  Microsoft's spyware strategy needs to start with Internet Explorer.
  
  So long as Internet Explorer is so closely tied to the desktop, so long as the boundaries between the untrustable Internet and the computer under the user's own control are fuzzy and based on the untrustworthy borders of "security zones", so long will spyware and viruses bedevil us.
  
  If Microsoft wants to give people insight into what's running on their computer, then Microsoft has to break down the myriad conduits between trusted and untrusted objects that run theough the HTML control.
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