Internet Association of China officially announced official definition of rogue software

The reporter learned from the Internet Association of China that the Internet Association of China organized more than 30 Internet practitioners to jointly study and draft the definition of malware (draft for soliciting opinions), which was officially announced yesterday, public comments will be solicited from the public in November 8-20.

Dai Wei, Vice Minister of International Cooperation and propaganda department of the China Internet Association, told reporters that the spread of malware (also known as "rogue software") seriously affected the normal internet access of Internet users, infringing the legitimate rights and interests of Internet users brings serious security risks to the Internet and hinders Internet applications.
 
 
 
The definition of malware is published on the premise of standardizing the application and service of Internet shared software and resisting malware from infringing the legitimate rights and interests of Internet users such as the right to know and the right to choose.

Huang clarified, Secretary General of the China Internet Association (Huang clarified the blog, Huang clarified the news, and Huang clarified the news). In an interview with reporters, he believed that people defined "rogue software ", due to the lack of legal force and credibility, it is difficult for manufacturers to recognize it. This is also the reason why 'qihoo 'and 'yahoo' accuse each other of 'hooligan. This association announced the definition, standards, characteristics and classification of malware, so that anti-malware actions can follow standards ."

After publishing the final version of malware definition, the Internet Association of China signed and issued the "anti-malware self-discipline Convention" and set up a telephone number for reporting malware, organization member organizations and member organizations of provincial Internet associations conduct self-check and self-correction actions against malware, and organize member organizations to develop detection and removal tools based on the Standard Characteristics of malware.

Dai Wei told reporters that many enterprises and organizations involved in the formulation of standards are still in a "rogue software" lawsuit, but they all claim to have "drawn a line" with such software ", in turn, it supports the suppression of "rogue software.

[Official definition]

Malware definition: software that is installed on users' computers or other terminals without explicit notice or permission from users and infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of users, except for computer viruses that have been prescribed by existing laws and regulations in China.

-Force installation: installation of software on the user's computer or other terminal without explicit notice or permission from the user.

-Hard-to-unmount: it refers to the action of still operating programs after uninstallation without providing a general method of uninstallation, or without being affected or damaged by other software.

-Browser hijacking: modifies the user's browser or other related settings without the user's permission, forces the user to access a specific website or causes the user to fail to access the Internet normally.

-Advertisement pop-up: uses software installed on users' computers or other terminals to bring up advertisements without explicitly prompting users or without users' permission.

-Malicious collection of user information: Malicious collection of user information without explicitly prompting the user or without the user's permission.

-Malicious uninstall: The action that does not explicitly prompt the user or mislead or fool the user to uninstall non-Malware without the user's permission.

-Malicious bundling: bundling software that has been recognized as malware.

-Other malicious behaviors that infringe the user's right to know and choose from.

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"Great little secretary" is alleged to be "rogue"

Morning Post reporter Xu Yu reported that Shanghai's first Internet user sued the "rogue software" case yesterday in the Pudong New Area court hearing. The core network friend of the anti-rogue software alliance filed a complaint to bring Shanghai great Information Technology Co., Ltd. to court and asked the other party to immediately stop manufacturing and disseminate the "great little secretary" software and apologize publicly, and a symbolic compensation of $94. Both parties present the evidence to the presiding judge and question the other party's evidence. The plaintiff's lawyer submitted evidence to prove that "great little secretary" is a kind of network plug-in. Forced installation without notice to netizens will often bring up advertisements and cannot be completely deleted. In order to delete the "great secretary", the plaintiff spent 150 yuan to ask the IT service company for help.

The defendant's lawyer said that "great little secretary" is not a rogue software, it is self-installed by netizens, not forced installation, and does not involve infringement of users' right to know. In addition, the uninstallation operation is simple and easy, and there will be no "sequelae" after deletion, there is no problem of uninstallation.