Coverage – The Guardian

Intego was featured today in UK publication The Guardian. The online coverage discussed OSXOpinionSpy, the Mac malware that Intego discovered last month  – Coverage Link

Short answer: you can’t. That’s why online newspapers (yes, oxymoron) in the UK subscribe to the ABCe system, which means they share their data about users according to an agreed method to measure unique users and so on.

Ironically, this harks back to the “Mac malware” scare of last month, when “PremierOpinion” – which is in fact a browser-tracking toolbar owned by a subsidiary of a subsidiary of, wait for it, comScore, another metrics company – was identified (arguably, wrongly, or at least over-excitedly) by the anti-virus company Intego as “adware/spyware”. Well, it’s sort of spyware, except it asks your permission and shows you an explanation of what it’s going to do. Permissionware?

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