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COAST Collapses
Group loses credibility, members, and now pulse
(old news - 06:47PM Tuesday Apr 12 2005)
tags: spyware
What happens when the only remaining members of your anti-spyware consortium are spyware vendors, and the entire tech community regards you as a complete joke? You collapse, apparently. According to the group's website, the Coast anti-spyware consortium is dead, after the few remaining legit members quit in protest over the group allowing the entry of ad/spyware vendors like 180Solutions. 180Solutions, like most junk-ware vendors, are busy trying to reconstruct their image to avoid running afoul of inevitable anti-spyware laws.

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jarablue
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LOL

Pack of thieves turning in on themselves. First post bootaylicious.
permalink · 2005-04-12 18:20:54 · Reply to this

mrchris
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Re: LOL

About time, they were losing credibility after spy/adware companies were joining anyways!

Please no 'first post' BS, kthx.
permalink · 2005-04-12 18:27:31 · Reply to this

oliphant
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Duh...

What did they think was going to happen? You lie with dogs you get fleas.

Good riddance...and let others be on notice; you whore yourself (Lavasucks, PP)...people will notice.
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permalink · 2005-04-12 18:27:06 · Reply to this

Doctor Four
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Re: Duh...

I like the analogy a GRC newsgroups regular gave a few
weeks ago when it was revealed that 180 Solutions had
joined:

"When you introduce enough foxes into a hen house, it
stops being a hen house. It has now become a fox den."
permalink · 2005-04-12 18:35:54 · Reply to this

GOLFnSUN
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Coast was always a joke and now just a dead duck

»www.coast-info.org/
NOTICE: C.O.A.S.T. has ceased operations, and this website will
be taken down permanently on April 15, 2005.
The site hasn't given any reason for the collapse.

Here is a link to the story at Cnet:
»news.com.com/Anti-spyware+group+···717.html
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permalink · 2005-04-12 18:27:18 · Print · Reply to this

hambone6666
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hehe

C.aved
O.ver
A.dding
S.pyware
T.rash

permalink · 2005-04-12 18:56:24 · Reply to this
Gundam_Toon

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Re: hehe

Good one
permalink · 2005-04-12 19:22:46 · Reply to this

Doctor Four
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Consortium Of Adware Scumware Trackware...

That's one someone posted in the security forum when
180 Solutions was admitted into COAST.
permalink · 2005-04-12 22:55:50 · Reply to this

GreggE
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Now for the rest

Any other "Anti-Spyware" companies want to defend companies of known spyware products? Maybe between the Adaware debacle and this, these legit spyware removal companies will stay legit and do what they set out to do in the first place...help the consumer.
permalink · 2005-04-12 20:30:45 · Reply to this

Grail Knight
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No surprise there.

These types probably eat their dead.

It is kind of sad though as they were easier to keep account of when they were in a cluster.
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permalink · 2005-04-12 21:55:12 · Reply to this

holymama31

@bellsouth.net

Re: No surprise there.

I tried to make an organization that was based on ethics and integrity to help curb spyware development.

My goal was to "certify" spyware-free developers and their software to promote "good" software development standards.

My goal was never to profit from this.

I tried doing this, and you may be wondering what happened.

Well, it's hard for an unknown "guy" to develop a website and make it big overnight.

Now, if a "Spyware researcher" (NO NAMES WINK WINK) were to do this, the program would gain national media attention.

I believe COAST had a good "idea," but the idea was fueled in the wrong direction by the spyware giants.

I tried putting my idea into motion but I couldn't garner the support of the "big-3" (NO NAMES WINK WINK)

so it died.........

permalink · 2005-04-12 22:14:59 · Print · Reply to this

holymama311

@bellsouth.net

Re: No surprise there.

BTW, I should mention,

I am in no way affiliated with COAST.

I tried to start my idea when COAST crashed.

"CASA - Coalition Against Spyware Advancement"

permalink · 2005-04-12 22:17:28 · Print · Reply to this

Grail Knight
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 I think COAST set themselves up for a fall by not realizing that once they let the Spyware Vendors into into their midst they would use their huge financial resources to sway the votes. No diff. then the government Special Interest Groups who claim they are working for the people, but are really only working for their own profit.

I think your idea could take off if you got the word out and
you could prove CASA's legitimacy holymama31. You would be amazed what backing is available once you prove your organization is there to help and has iron clad contracts with anyone that would be part of your group not allowing it to stray from it's mission.

If money is made available after that so be it. One can not fight the Spyware Vendors without cash. I personally would like to see MS throw their financial weight behind a group be it yours if it takes off or any Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware. I think you would see some real progress then in fighting these losers that prey on users and their machines.
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permalink · 2005-04-13 05:50:53 · Print · Reply to this

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said by Grail Knight See Profile:

These types probably eat their dead.
More likely they eat their newborn.

It's amazing what $$$ combined with the mindset of a serial killer can accomplish --- total destruction of anything even approaching "a good thing".
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permalink · 2005-04-13 16:12:49 · Reply to this

Rogue Wolf
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Hmmm....

Could this have been what the spyware companies wanted all along?

Infiltrate, corrupt, destroy from within... victory?
permalink · 2005-04-12 23:20:24 · Reply to this

Fatal Vector

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Re: Hmmm....


You think? This strategy is old as the hills. Infilterate and conquer.
permalink · 2005-04-13 00:52:07 · Reply to this

zoom314
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Re: Hmmm....

said by Fatal Vector:

You think? This strategy is old as the hills. Infiltrate and conquer.
Actually It's called Divide and Conquer, As that is what one would do to an enemy or an opponent.

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permalink · 2005-04-13 11:40:14 · Print · Reply to this
damox
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It's my guess . . .

It's my guess that the demise of COAST was 180Solutions' plan all along.
permalink · 2005-04-13 12:29:09 · Reply to this

RealDrazula

@fiserv.com

A new standards committee needed

The goals of the original members of COAST was standardization and awareness. Certification of products was never the original intension. And that runs completely counter to the original goals.

Hopefully a new organization can be formed to move standards and education forward.
permalink · 2005-04-13 13:27:46 · Reply to this

holyhell

@bellsouth.net

Re: A new standards committee needed

standards and education?

nah
permalink · 2005-04-13 19:17:11 · Reply to this
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