Products found to not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection or found to use unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales or found to be associated with known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known to install spyware/adware themselves.

The SANS Institute, offering computer security training for system administrators, computer security professionals, and network administrators, is a cooperative research and education organization that has many consensus projects to return computer security information to the community.

Project being run by Harvard Law School, Oxford University and Consumer Reports WebWatch to develop a clearinghouse for research on badware and those who create and spread it. Includes forms for reporting malware experiences.

Listing of processes commonly found on Windows systems, and their purpose. Includes a large directory of malicious processes with basic descriptions.

Encyclopedia of Windows processes including common spyware, adware and viruses.