What is this? (The Shield Firewall 5.0)

[Guest]

[WaterWall]

Seems like their product Security Shield really is F-Secure ISS 2006, and this one is Kaspersky ISS.
The adress privacydefender4.com also works, instead of pcsecurityshield.com. Pretty strange, since they're not offering that product nowadays.

They are copying everything !

[Blas]

LoL
I knew it was familiar from somewhere...
And its strange too...Okay, Kaspersky has sold its antivirus engine to a lot of third parties. But in those cases, at least the ones I came across it was mentioned clearly that they are using that engine. Note that only the engine...not the whole gui with only the colors changed lol (I thought the gui is copyrighted..)...I can do that in paint too haha...And I thought you NEED to mention if you are using third party technology..as with linux distributions. It is always indicated if the distro is based on another one. And look where does the official 'download.com' icon point.  
I don't want to make accusations, but this site really looks like a wannabe-serious and trying-to-look-sophisticated phishing.

[WaterWall]

LoL
I knew it was familiar from somewhere...
And its strange too...Okay, Kaspersky has sold its antivirus engine to a lot of third parties. But in those cases, at least the ones I came across it was mentioned clearly that they are using that engine. Note that only the engine...not the whole gui with only the colors changed lol (I thought the gui is copyrighted..)...I can do that in paint too haha...And I thought you NEED to mention if you are using third party technology..as with linux distributions. It is always indicated if the distro is based on another one. And look where does the official 'download.com' icon point.  
I don't want to make accusations, but this site really looks like a wannabe-serious and trying-to-look-sophisticated phishing.

Yeah. Come to think about all the greens they "spent" on licensing those products - quite a large sum of money.

I know Steganos has licensed Kaspersky and AVG with the GUI looking exactly the same, but this is too much 

[Rafel]

LoL
I knew it was familiar from somewhere...
And its strange too...Okay, Kaspersky has sold its antivirus engine to a lot of third parties. But in those cases, at least the ones I came across it was mentioned clearly that they are using that engine. Note that only the engine...not the whole gui with only the colors changed lol (I thought the gui is copyrighted..)...I can do that in paint too haha...And I thought you NEED to mention if you are using third party technology..as with linux distributions. It is always indicated if the distro is based on another one. And look where does the official 'download.com' icon point. 
I don't want to make accusations, but this site really looks like a wannabe-serious and trying-to-look-sophisticated phishing.

First af all, i don't like taht company, but:




Well, in FW and AS don't specifies powered by..., but perhaps  when they signed the contract, that point wasn't included.
Sorry my english

[Blas]

Thanks Rafel for pointing this out...somehow I missed it...I'll edit my posts accordingly

[Rafel]

You are welcome Blas.

They are not copying. They make/sell licenced products. They don't sell the last updated product, but their prices are cheappy,well, they say is alimited offer, but isn't true, but others "good companies" do the same. They offer an outdated product, but coording to their words, have got a 24/7 phone attention for free, the FW is lifetime with 24/7 free phone support.
The The problem is not they are selling a product COMODO offers for free. The end user can choose. The problem is if that 24/7 attention is true, if they bundle "presents" in their products, their ads, if they are selling for third party your data and then you receive a lot of spam in your mail.
I think COMODO must investigate practices of that company because COMODO reputation is above the table.

[JamesFrance]

It is not just Site Advisor which doesn't like this.   I tried to look at the web site but cannot go there, so I guess my MVPS hosts file has it blocked.

[Goose19]

*bump* any news Melih?

[Melih]

they are registered with BBB etc.

we are talking to them to hear their side of the story.

thanks
melih

[JamesFrance]

Not being familiar with BBB, I tried Google and came up with this:

http://www.brumbazaar.co.uk/

Surely not?

[Ragwing]

Not being familiar with BBB, I tried Google and came up with this:

http://www.brumbazaar.co.uk/

Surely not?

I would guess BBB means Better Business Bureau.

Cheers,
Ragwing

[JamesFrance]

I'm sure you're right Ragwing, I found that too!

[Blas]

Anyway I do not like that they are selling cfp.
I think it is against comodo policy...
If they are only selling the 24/7 free phone support for it, then ok. But if this is the case it is far from obvious from their site. The reason on their site for "why should you buy it" are the features and protection strengths of cfp. These features are also available free. I think this is a clear misleading approach.
Im sure that legally there is nothing we can criticize, but I think this is the same as with contracts or licenses...
10 pages of "blah...blah..." and then on the last one, as a footnote there is the tricky part..."it was there..." but who reads them through?

[lurkingatu2]

well last nite i was going to try and download pcsecurityshields stuff but avira antivir pe classic went off with

Virus or unwanted program 'HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen [HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen]'
detected in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\x86master\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\H28Z70CI\company-info-5290-PCSecurityShield[1].htm.
Action performed: Deny access

doin't look good at all IMO

[Goose19]

I'm tellin ya... bad bad company right there.

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