Re: Bad Advice from Comodo and Loss of Trust

George Orwell

From "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
> From: "George Orwell" <>
>
> |
> |
> | May 31st, 2008 by Corrine
> |
> | How does a security vendor lose trust? It likely begins when the
> | company CEO becomes overly defensive and posts rants such the one at
> | the end of this post:
> |
> | "You know what pisses me off the most: Its ill-informing, mis-
> | informing doing a disservice to users, because of our own agendas!!!! I
> | have no problem with people liking or disliking what we have, we
> | respect opinions, however people in the position to make a difference,
> | abusing the trust that users have bestowed upon them by ill-informing
> | is just plain wrong!!!"
> |
> | Please pay particular attention to the words in bold in the above
> | quotation while you consider the explanation on the Comodo website for
> | providing a free firewall:
> |
> | "You must be wondering - how can we stay in business by giving away
> | high quality solutions that all other software vendors sell. Simply,
> | Comodo's main revenue comes from authenticating web business with SSL
> | certificates (e.g. we put the padlock on websites)."
> |
> | Apparently that source of revenue must not be as lucrative as one might
> | expect since Comodo has found it necessary to add to their revenue base
> | by including the IAC/Ask Toolbar to the most recent version of the
> | firewall.
> |
> | Circling back to the subject of a vendor losing trust and considering
> | the above text in bold, it seems that Comodo is indeed abusing trust
> | when, in defense of including a toolbar provided by a known adware
> | vendor, they are suggesting that users turn off their antivirus
> | software!
> |
> | NOTE: This "Toolbar" is being detected by various Anti-virus
> | software as Adware/Malware *THIS IS A FALSE POSTIVE!!!*, There is NO
> | Adware, Spyware etc in this Toolbar WHAT SO EVER. If you are having
> | problems installing the Toolbar, turn off your AV if this is the case.
> |
> | Indeed, Comodo is ill-forming, mis-informing and providing a major
> | disservice to users. As illustrated at Calendar of Updates, when the
> | Comodo toolbar was installed and the toolbar .dll scanned at virustotal
> | and virusscan.jotti, the following were the results:
> |
> | ASKSBAR.DLL
> | MD5…: ccc67b6b51bf3b004c6186c2da2faa2e
> |
> | A-Squared Found Adware.Win32.MySearch.i
> | ArcaVir Found Adware.Mysearch.I
> | CAT-QuickHeal 9.50 2008.05.29 AdWare.MySearch.i (Not a Virus)
> | ClamAV 0.92.1 2008.05.29 Adware.Mysearch-1
> | Fortinet 3.14.0.0 2008.05.29 Adware/MySearch
> | Panda 9.0.0.4 2008.05.29 Suspicious file
> | Sunbelt 3.0.1139.1 2008.05.29 AdWare.Win32.MySearch.i
> | VBA32 3.12.6.6 2008.05.29 AdWare.Win32.MySearch.i
> |
> | Everyone must decide for themselves. Personally, any vendor that not
> | only condones but recommends turning off users antivirus software and
> | intentionally includes known adware in their software is not one that I
> | trust.
> |
> | The full text of Comodo's ill-informing advice which is not only doing
> | a disservice to users, but is also an abuse of trust has been preserved
> | at Info: COMODO SafeSurf Toolbar.
> |
> | More here:
> |
>
>
> To add to the abobe complaint...
>
> Comodo has been well known to provide software publishing certificates to malware authors
> such as the WinFixer Group (Amaena.com). While the do revoke the certificates when
> notified, they provide publishing certificates w/o vetting the company. Having malware have
> a legitimate software publishing certificate is one way to thwart the security in Windows
> Vista.


Comodo is the Malware Author's Best Friend, well known for
issuing "Insecurity Certificates" to all without question. You
cannot trust such a company with your data security. In any
case, their programs suck. Avoid!



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Craig

George Orwell wrote:
> From "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
>> From: "George Orwell" <>
>>
>> |
>> |
>> | May 31st, 2008 by Corrine
>> |
>> | How does a security vendor lose trust? It likely begins when the
>> | company CEO becomes overly defensive and posts rants such the one at
>> | the end of this post:
....
>>
>> To add to the abobe complaint...
>>
>> Comodo has been well known to provide software publishing certificates to malware authors
>> such as the WinFixer Group (Amaena.com). While the do revoke the certificates when
>> notified, they provide publishing certificates w/o vetting the company. Having malware have
>> a legitimate software publishing certificate is one way to thwart the security in Windows
>> Vista.
>
>
> Comodo is the Malware Author's Best Friend, well known for
> issuing "Insecurity Certificates" to all without question. You
> cannot trust such a company with your data security. In any
> case, their programs suck. Avoid!
>

If Comodo is a bad issuer of security certs, what are the good ones or,
do you have a linky to a resource that discusses this?

tia,
-Craig

Franklin

On Tue 03 Jun 2008 00:59:51, George Orwell wrote:

> From "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
>> [...]
>
> Comodo is the Malware Author's Best Friend, well known for
> issuing "Insecurity Certificates" to all without question. You
> cannot trust such a company with your data security. In any
> case, their programs suck. Avoid!
>

Watch out because Comodo is one of Mr Bottom's favorite security apps.