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Re: Free security s/w products from Comodo Group:
de Comodo 05/31/2006 10:15
hummingbird wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:46:33 -0700 'Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH
> to send'
> posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
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> >hummingbird wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks. According to the spywareguide.com link provided by 'chris'
> >> on this newsgroup, your free products do include a malicious toolbar.
> >> Another poster has also referenced earlier debate about this problem.
> >
> >
> >Maybe that's for older versions or something -- I just installed it and
> >I don't have a toolbar -- and believe me, I don't do toolbars, so I
> >wouldn't have installed it if I had to use one.
>
> OK but "it" being which one of the Comodo products? The firewall?
No, Trusttoolbar. The first company who mis-classified it was Lavasoft.
Trusttoolbar is a fairly advanced Identity assurance tool. As you know,
where phishing attacks happen and the most damage is done under 6 hours
making sure to have a real time identity assurance kind of makes sense.
So Trusttoolbar is a browser plugin that checks the legitimacy of each
site you go to in real time. In 2001/2002 (when Trusttoolbar was
launched) this realtime lookup scared lavasoft and they, without
analysing (as i believe lavasoft was one man band then and had no
resources) thought that was a bad thing. The idea of real time lookup
for identity assurance is now being accepted and we have been the
leader in that since 2001! So, as I said earlier, there are many cowboy
spyware companies, who piggy back on the analysis that other companies
do. Saves time and money to simply copy and paste someone else's
spyware database, along with that they also copy and paste the
mistakes! So anyone who reports trusttoolbar obviously have "not
analysed" trusttoolbar and simply copied other company's results;-) And
they get you to pay for that service too ;-) nice huh!
Trusttoolbar is a free product, we do NOT make money from it, in any
shape or form, its about providing identity assurance for free for
everyone.
Hope this clarifies.
Melih