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CVMhp website charter
Every professional website needs a charter to keep it from wandering aimlessly...
- Summary
- This website seeks primarily to dispel computer virus myths, misconceptions, urban legends,
and hoaxes.
- This website seeks secondarily to improve the reader's knowledge of lesser-known, technically
oriented, and/or controversial issues in the virus research field.
- This website exists for information purposes.
- Topics specifically beyond the scope of this website
- This website does not offer a beginner's course on "what is a virus."
(Surf here for good information.)
- This website does not review specific antivirus products or services for functionality.
(Caveat emptor.)
- This website does not teach people how to use specific antivirus products or services.
However, it will seek to dispel general misconceptions about them.
- This website does not provide viruses for download. Nor does it teach how to create
viruses. It does not provide source code to viruses -- not even for so-called "information
purposes." (Surf here if you want to
mess with actual viruses.)
- Advertising
- This website sells no products or services. It exists for information purposes.
- Paid advertising
- This website generates revenue via a sole sponsor who sells advertising.
- This website will never accept paid advertisements for computer security products or
services.
- This website will never accept paid advertisements related to pornography.
- Unpaid endorsements
- The mention of (or hotlink to) any product, service, company, or individual does not in itself constitute
an endorsement.
- Gratis advertisements (e.g. branded URLs) qualifiy as an unpaid endorsement.
- The recommendations page contains only unsolicited, unpaid
endorsements.
- The recommendations page will never include anything which would earn Rob Rosenberger money as a
result (e.g. paid advertising, book royalties, quid pro quo, referral commissions).
- All recommendations will include a "bias disclosure" explaining why it
received an endorsement.
- Branded URLs
- This website offers a free "branded URL" to established web portals. Compare the
default home page to
this portal page for an example.
- This website will never provide branded URLs to computer security companies.
- This website retains full editorial control over branded URLs and provides them at the webmaster's sole
arbitrary discretion.
- Your data privacy
- This domain uses no "cookies" to store or track information about a
user's visit.
- This domain doesn't require users to "register" themselves or participate in any
surveys.
- This domain maintains a daily activity log for every HTTP transaction.
- The activity log records only the source IP, file requested, and request date/time. That's
it. It doesn't even record the referring URL (although it may in the future).
- This domain archives raw activity logs for posterity.
- The webmaster uses raw logs to construct daily & monthly reports for most-requested pages
and most prolific source IPs.
- This domain provides raw logs to others only when forced (e.g. to
document an attack).
- Website philosophy
- A concise discussion takes priority in an extremely complex issue. (Look for an "advanced topics"
hotlink in such cases.)
Dilbert: I've been considering acupuncture as a way to relieve stress.
Dogbert: The theory here is that sticking large needles into your body will help you relax?
Dilbert: It sounds silly when you say it.
Dogbert: Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly.