The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) was a group formed in 2005 with the goal to build a consensus about definitions and best practices in the debate surrounding
spyware
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is software with malicious behaviour that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their priva ...
.
Composed of
anti-spyware
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is software with malicious behaviour that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their priva ...
software companies, academics, and consumer groups, the ASC seeks to bring together a diverse array of perspective on the problem of controlling spyware and other potentially unwanted technologies.
History
Formed in 2005 after the dissolution of the
Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors
A consortium (plural: consortia) is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case o ...
(COAST) which broke up over internal dissent.
[Cowley, Stacy, "Coast antispyware consortium falls apart", IDG News Service,
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/08/HNcoastfallsapart_1.html
February 8, 2005 ] In April 2005
Ari Schwartz called together the initial group of Anti-Spyware companies; others later joined
A series of documentswas published, and feedback solicited. The first set of documents consisted of a definition of spyware and potentially unwanted technologies, and a vendor dispute resolution process. This was followed by a "Risk Model" providing Anti-Spyware vendors with a framework for classifying software. In March 2007 the ASC published the public final draft of their Best Practices document.
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Spyware
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