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Re: Free security s/w products from Comodo Group:
de Craig 05/31/2006 04:31
hummingbird wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006 00:21:36 GMT 'Craig'
> posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>
>
>>hummingbird wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 30 May 2006 21:59:43 GMT 'Craig'
>>>posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>>>
>>>[snip]
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>>>[hack]
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>>>>Spywareguide rates Comodo's toolbar as "adware" and "difficult to
>>>>remove." /Not/ malicious.
>>>
>>>[snippage]
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>
>>>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?
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>
> 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...
>
Yup. I missed that. I think we're on the same page now...
>
> ...it makes me wonder who to believe - Comodo or
> spywareguide...
Fwiw, as spywareguide's policies stand, I'd say they're less transparent
than Comodo. Witness, for example, that Comodo reps (ie Melih) are in
here often, trying to explain in -what appears to me as- good faith. In
the end though, I don't think there are outright demons on either side
of this.
-Craig