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Originally Posted by GeordieF
Long time lurker here. I`ve followed the thread in this forum among others with great interest since first reading about Phorm. As my BT contract is due to run out in June I intend jumping ship to another provider then. I emailed BT about their deployment of WebWise, however I think UKPRTeam answered it as not one of my questions were answered.
Anyhoo, just emailed antiphishing.org and awaiting a reply
Dear Sir/Madam,
It was with some dismay and shock that I noticed you carrying the logo of Phorm, ( www.phorm.com), once known as 121Media, and renowned the world over for hard to remove spyware and rootkits. Surely there is a conflict of interest here, or is it a matter of money talks?
How a reputable organisation can allow such a company to become a member beggers belief!
It merely seems a case of Phorm paying membership fees to your organisation to gain a cloak of respectibility through being associated with many of the fine companies who DO care about malware and best practice.
With dismay
Geordie
At the worst antiphishing.org know I`m not happy about it. At the best they may reconsider their position.
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GeordieF and I must say we both did the same thing at roughly the same time; namely contacting the anti phishing working group regarding Phorms membership. I really hope that others will follow suit. If enough people contact them regarding Phorm then maybe they will reconsider and that would make a great news story to batter Phorm with. Just imagine the headline on theregister:
"Anti-Phishing Working Group withdraws Phorm Membership"
That would be a nice concrete achievement if we could make it happen and would help to increase publicity and would be one more nail in the coffin.