McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe
Great... #
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 18:31 GMT
Yet another 'feature' for McAfee to load onto the top of their quivering pile of bloatware...
My Opinion last year #
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 20:23 GMT
was that this service was over sold and could not possibly keep up with the number of sites using it now I know it is.
security theatre #
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 23:35 GMT
you can't verify a site is secure by only using standard automated test tools - sure, they're great for capturing obvious stuff, but to really prove a web service is secure requires a willingness to actually break the service, and a proper audit of the source code by experienced security-aware *independent* programmers.
if these people have, or ever will, issue a kitemark to a service running on any form of windows, then they're charlatans!
SiteAdvisor #
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 06:38 GMT
... is crap! I have luckily forgotten which website affiliated with McAfee is visited, which tried to covert me into buying some shady "security product" (anti-spyware) by running a "test" from their website - consisting only of JavaScripted events - no real information of any kind was processed - a complete scam! And SiteAdvisor claimed it to be all kosher. I (naturally) filed a report with SiteAdvisor - which apparently was rejected, as it simply disappeared from the system within a couple of weeks.
Needless to say - I abandoned SiteAdvisor shortly after...
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