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* McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe

Eddy

Great... 

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Yet another 'feature' for McAfee to load onto the top of their quivering pile of bloatware...

Mike Lovell

Hmm... 

Coat

Will FastHosts be applying for certification?

Anonymous Coward

My Opinion last year 

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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.

Paul

security theatre 

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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!

Anonymous Coward

SiteAdvisor 

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... 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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