February 10, 2006

Researchers Battle Against 'Badware'

By VINCENT KIERNAN

With the financial backing of the information-technology behemoths Google and Sun Microsystems, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Oxford are starting a project intended to stem the online tide of spam, spyware, and other "badware."

The "multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort," says one of its two directors, John Palfrey, is called StopBadware (http://stopbadware.org). It is run by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where Mr. Palfrey is