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Re: Free security s/w products from Comodo Group:
de Comodo 05/31/2006 04:49
Craig wrote:
> hummingbird wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 May 2006 21:59:43 GMT 'Craig'
> > posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > [hack]
> >>
> >>Spywareguide rates Comodo's toolbar as "adware" and "difficult to
> >>remove." /Not/ malicious.
> >
> > Malicious is a subjective term. IMHO any software which quietly
> > installs adware without my explicit approval is malicious.
>
> Understood. (And although I believe your definition to be a tad...
> draconian, I wasn't trying to debate that.) Rather, the fact that
> "malware" is a partial derivative of "malicious," it damns by
> association and I wanted to distance the product from that particular
> word.
> >
> > Are you missing the point that I posted info about these Comodo
> > products and it was *two other posters* who called them out?
>
> I'm sorry...what do you mean by "called them out?" I'd assumed you had
> labeled CPF "malicious" based on someone referencing a spywareguide url.
> Did I miss something?
>
> -Craig
Adware means the toolbar advertises something. Well i can categorically
state that it does not!
read the PDF document in this posting
http://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,113.0.html
You will see that respectable anti spyware companies are decent enough
to accept their mistake!
Melih