said by Khaine :

What we need out of the ashes of COAST is a new organisation, which will fight to rid the world of spyware, which will get anti-spyware vendors to work together in educating the masses, in tracking down and stopping this scumware. We need an organisation which will do what COAST was supposed to do.

said by novaflare :

What we need is a groupe like coast that is decentralized. Web domains with unreachacble untraceable owners. Sort of like spyware vendors do but for anti spyware vendors.

said by mers2 :

They could have been a powerful force against the spyware/malware companies but they signed their own death warrant in lowering their standards and in the end by inviting malware companies a place at the table.

said by DrStrange :

I like the SPEWS model. I assume, when you're talking about the 'cons', you mean the calculated overkill that SPEWS uses to put pressure on spam-friendly [and just plain lazy] ISPs. I don't know how this could apply to adware/spyware/$#%!ware, so it might yield more positive results when used against the purveyors of this garbage than it did when used against spammers and their friends.

I hope you're not including the flaming of spammers that was rampant on NANAE among the 'cons'. It would be fun and more than a little cathartic if we could have a chance to flame spyware makers directly.

said by cacroll :

I'm with you on the flaming bit, Doc. I would love to flame some of those assholes. Having read some of Ben's and Eric's latest writings, I might even pay for the bullets if we could shoot them (not shoot to kill, just let me fire some buckshot into one or two).