Digital Information Network (DIN) Challenges Industry to Fight Malware

Digital Information Network (DIN) Challenges Industry to Fight Malware

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the pervasive onslaught of spyware and adware, Digital Information Network (DIN), the desktop application provider, is challenging the software industry to protect consumers and businesses from Internet malfeasance, and adhere to ethical online practices, and issued the following statement:

Digital Information Network Statement on Internet Ethics

As a company that has always offered a spyware-free desktop weather and information alert application, DIN is committed to ensuring that consumers have the safest, most secure computing experience possible, and challenges other application providers to do the same. Software that performs activities against the will of the user is denying the user a safe and secure computing environment. Such acts as altering operating systems, tracking keyboard functions surreptitiously, and unleashing unwanted pop-up ads is not only an annoyance to individuals, but destructive to business by limiting productivity and exposing companies' proprietary data. Until our industry holds spyware and adware producers liable, this problem is likely to continue.

For DIN, there is no gray area when it comes to malware. DIN does not track users' surfing habits, change content, install third-party software, or conduct any other illicit activities that plague desktop software, and challenges the industry to adhere to this higher standard of ethical conduct.

Jon Fowler
CEO and President, Digital Information Network

About Digital Information Network

Digital Information Network allows broadcasters to extend the reach and value of their on-air content with their own Internet convergence technology. DIN is equipped with emergency alert graphics, weather warning maps and the ability to display photos, text and video of designated news content on wired and wireless computers. Established in 1998, DIN has partnered with national media groups, such as ABC Viacom, Meredith, Gray, Liberty, The New York Times, Freedom, and Nexstar. More information about our desktop software is available at http://www.dininfo.com/ .

Source: Digital Information Network

CONTACT: Joshua Lefkowitz, +1-212-614-5012, or
Joshua_Lefkowitz@nyc.bm.com , or Darcy Hansen, +1-212-614-5072, both of
Burson-Marsteller, for Digital Information Network

Web site: http://www.dininfo.com/

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