Harvard Law School
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Harvard Law School
In an effort to stamp out what has become an epidemic of spyware, unwanted adware, and other malicious software plaguing millions of computers and costing consumers billions of dollars each year, Internet research centers at Harvard Law School and Oxford University plan today to unveil a program aimed at outing the shady companies that produce them. The project has received initial financing ''in the seven figures'' from several leading technology companies, including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems, according to John G. Palfrey Jr., the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.