Archive for May, 2009

Oh Comodo here we go again!

Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by

Visiting the following Fraudware Antispyware site … I always check the “Buy now” (purchase) section to see where this will lead. Sadly it leads to yet another Comodo issued certificate … You can see from the Microsoft Fiddler output where the site leads … I pasted the certificate info into the output … Comodo states: […]

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Follow-up to the Comodo Controversy

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by

It seems that after my last post concerning Comodo it has caused quite a stir … so I’d like to clear up a few points made on several other Forums.[DSL Reports] [Security Garden] [Wilders Security] [Calendar of Updates] Over at Comodo’s Forum “Melih” who describes himself as: Comodo’s Hero Administrator “You say we responded to […]

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Comodo continues to issue certificates to known Malware

Posted on May 16th, 2009 by

I was following up on a list of malware sites posted on Dancho Danchev’s Blog and yet again I find Comodo issuing certificates to these Malware writers. The reason I say again is I was given a “secret” email address at Comodo a while back to report these culprits … however I was asked to […]

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MVPS HOSTS File Update May-11-2009

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by

The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [May-11-2009]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (145 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the “text” version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits … http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt (597 kb)

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Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by

Yes it’s a shameless plug … but I got a nice writeup today on their blog … A little update on Zango … I looked thru the sites I had listed that were using/linking to Zango and the vast majority are still using their code on these sites … duh! Do these sites using Zango’s […]

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