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30 Oct 2007 16:40

Goes mad for certifying

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Great... 

By Eddy
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 17:44 GMT
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Yet another 'feature' for McAfee to load onto the top of their quivering pile of bloatware...

Hmm... 

By Mike Lovell
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 18:02 GMT
Coat

Will FastHosts be applying for certification?

My Opinion last year 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 20:05 GMT
Pirate

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 

By Paul
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 23:06 GMT
Jobs Halo

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 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 05:10 GMT
Black Helicopters

... 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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