Friday, November 21, 2008

badware busters - a 'me too' effort

i read yesterday that the folks at stopbadware.org and consumer reports webwatch are starting a community called badware busters to help ordninary people get malware off their computers...

the stated reasoning is that there's no central place where people can get this help, and they're correct there is no single central place, rather there are dozens of them... some of them even have the slashdot-esque features that badware busters seem to hope will set them apart....

that is if the folks at badware busters are even aware that there are so many communities already doing this... i'm really not sure what they're thinking or how they expect to become the central community for this sort of thing when there's already places like wilders security forums, castle cops, the communities that just about each and ever av vendor seems to set up, the long list of communities you can go to for help with hijackthis logs (and generally don't deal exclusively in hijackthis log analysis), various usenet newsgroups, etc...

dare to dream, guys/gals, but i just can't see you displacing all the other communities that are already out there (and castle cops takes this kind of assistance giving very seriously) and becoming the place to go for all your malware removal needs...

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