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Anti-Spyware Coalition Offers Guidelines to Help Consumers

A coalition of anti-spyware vendors and consumer groups published guidelines Thursday to help consumers assess products designed to combat unwanted programs that sneak onto computers. The Anti-Spyware Coalition released the guidelines for public comment and also updated a separate document that attempted to craft uniform definitions for "spyware" and "adware" in hopes of giving computer users more control over their machines.

Anti-Spyware Group Publishes Guidelines, Associated Press, October 27, 2005.