More badware accusations levelled at web giant.
StopBadware.org
, the international anti-malware coalition backed by
Google
and
Sun
among others, has labelled
AOL
‘s current free offering as badware, citing a number of suspect actions performed by the software, both during installation and once it is in use.
The numerous accusations include installing more software than it appears to, changing other software (such as
Microsoft
‘s
Internet Explorer
, which has a toolbar added among other tweaks), and updating automatically, all without sufficient disclosure to the end user.
The report comes not long after
AOL
‘s free anti-virus offering, based on
Kaspersky
technology, was
criticised
for using aggressive language in its EULA and including a suspect toolbar.
AOL
has already made some changes in response to the allegations, and promises more improvements in a forthcoming version of the software.
Read
StopBadware
‘s report
here
.
Posted on 30 August 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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