Looking for honest webmasters and advertisers

Though I felt well protected, I have spent a good part of a day getting rid of a browser hijack script. I'm exactly not sure where I got it but it was very persistent. If I had the owner of the advertising company responsible in front of me right now, I would probably beat him/her/it to the point where he/she/it would beg for death.

OK rant over! Now I am proposing and idea for all of us that hate the terrible tactics of "so called" online advertisers who employ such tactics as endless pop-ups, browser helper objects, spyware and such.

I plan to generate a site dedicated to combating these people. I want to make their use of the internet absolutely painful as long as they use the methods described above. Here are a few things I am thinking of:

• A blacklist of confirmed adware and malware users
• A list of confirmed "good guys" who only use reputable advertising tactics
• A method of reporting malicious advertisers
• A method of reporting reputable advertisers
• A repository of tools people can use to protect themselves

Any confirmed malicious advertiser would be reported to their isp in a manner that would serve to compel the isp to "pull the plug". This report would contain the total number of complaints received and the reason for the complaints as well as the verification method used to validate the complaints. A detailed "whois" would be performed and verified. Also, to prevent some innocent site owner from getting blamed, the complaint would be verified.

The list of malicious advertiser list would be available in several text formats for easy inclusion in browser and firewall "restricted sites" areas. This is so that the "everyday" user can just copy and paste as needed.

The idea here is to remove resources from these malicious advertisers through legal means. Enough information will be available to users of the site that they can individually submit complaints. It is a similar concept to "artists against 415" which targets the "nigerian bank" scams.

If this is something you would be interested in please send me a message.

Thanks for reading this,
Alan