Microsoft and Claria -- Going Soft on Malware

Microsoft and Claria -- Going Soft on Malware
July 18, 2005
Ray Everett-ChurchBy Ray Everett-Church

It's been a bad month for Microsoft's efforts to promote their visions of trustworthiness and authentication in Internet commerce.

Just as the ground began to crumble beneath Microsoft's "Sender ID" email authentication proposal, it was discovered that the Redmond, Wa.-based software giant was considering acquiring Claria, one of the world's most notorious adware and spyware companies.

Let's look first at the email authentication wars. As I've discussed previously, the battle over email authentication has been raging for several years. Among the many proposals being considered by the email industry and Internet standards community is Microsoft's Sender ID and its closely related cousin, the "Sender Permitted From" or SPF standard.

Both SPF and Sender ID use text records entered into a domain's DNS entry that define what IP addresses should be permitted to send email for that domain. These definitions embedded in the sender's DNS records are then queried and parsed by the receiving server to determine whether to accept or reject a particular piece of email.


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It was only a matter of time. I have had a bad taste in my mouth from MS from day one.

Great. Just what we need. A wealthy company like MS in the drivers seat of a massive pop up and spam company.

 

You have to be a moron to use that product anyway.

 

Exactly.. microsofts antispyware is BS, if it was a good antispyware program, it would uninstall IE and windows


Josh

 

That would be a dream come true.

 

Just to let you guys know all this Claria stuff is 100% rumor. Microsoft posted information on the Claria case at http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/claria_letter.mspx

And NO MS is not or has not bought Claira and have no intensions to. Claria is I belive coming clean as they see the future in Spyware and Adware not so good.

 

Well you have this...
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/claria_letter.mspx

And then this....
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834514,00.asp

But since Jeff lives in BG's basement I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

How do you know Claria is going to go legit?