StopBadware.org, Mozilla Partner to Protect Consumers

Mozilla joins Google, PayPal, Lenovo, VeriSign, AOL and Trend Micro in supporting the initiative led by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

StopBadware.org, the university-based consumer protection initiative developed to combat badware in novel ways, announced today that Mozilla will become its newest sponsor.

“Firefox was developed through the collective knowledge of a community,” said Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of StopBadware.org and author of The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. “We look forward to applying lessons of Mozilla’s open development process to our own efforts in fighting badware.”

Those efforts include research into how badware spreads online, an active community of users helping each other to keep their websites and computers protected, public alerts about new badware applications, and a clearinghouse of dangerous websites reported by StopBadware.org’s partners.

“Mozilla is proud to partner with StopBadware.org, an organization that shares our vision of bringing people together to build open, transparent solutions that respect user choice,” said John Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO. “This type of collaboration is critical to fighting back against an organized criminal element and ultimately preserving the online user experience.”