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Re: Free security s/w products from Comodo Group:
de hummingbird 05/31/2006 10:04
On Wed, 31 May 2006 00:21:36 GMT 'Craig'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>hummingbird wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 May 2006 21:59:43 GMT 'Craig'
>> posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
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>> [snip]
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>> [hack]
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>>>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.
Indeed. On a scale of maliciousness, Comodo products seem to be on
the low end. If I had a current use for any one of those I listed
earlier, I'd probably suffer the toolbar in order to get the s/w
function, although there are probably alternatives.
>> 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?
Well I started this thread by posting a list of Comodo FREE products
with a caveat that I had not installed any of them myself and other
users should therefore take care if/when installing them. 'Brian
Robertson' and then 'chris' raised the issue of Comodo products
installing toolbars (hence my term 'called them out') which apparently
are difficult to get rid of, and 'chris' referred to an earlier debate
on a.c.f. about them and on the spywareguide url.
Based upon spywareguide's comments, I took the view that Comodo
products are malicious, but as I said above - in the overall scheme of
things - low on the scale.
I wasn't aware of any of that at the time of my original posting and
your later comments about the alleged vested interests of spywareguide
is interesting, it makes me wonder who to believe - Comodo or
spywareguide. I see Comodo also have something to say on the matter.
The debate continues ...