Sometimes I come across websites that are verified by Comodo VE, and I wonder what’s the use. It can even be somewhat annoying. Three examples:
BBC News.
A file-hosting site.
Does verification protect you from downloading downloading infected warez, or something like that…? 88)
Please feel free to post any links to websites that are verified unnecessarily in your opinion.
Hi Toxteth, many of the sites you mentioned may have been requested by other users. I believe Melih intended the use of this product not to be used soley for banks and other financial institutions but for any website that you wanted to verify the identity of.
I personally can see the purpose of mybittorrent, though honestly if you use something like that you’re practically begging for malware anyway…
Dave
VE does not use black or whitelists. It examines the content of the site. This is why it ‘verifies’ everything, even unnecessary ones. And about legit sites…you never know when it will be comprimised. Anyway, you can be redirected to a malicious fake site anytime…without VE it would be more difficult to make any difference.
If what you’re saying is right, anyone could create a “verified” website, simply by adding so-called verified items to it.
Who thought it was a good idea to add lots of file hosting websites? Either you know the uploader (and know you’re save) or you don’t. Either way, verification adds absolutely nothing (security-wise), whichever way you look at it. Even if such a site were to become compromised, the resulting “loss” of verification would potentially only be useful to those who know it was verified before.
It could even be argued that verification lulls you into a false sense of security with file hosts, because it says exactly zero about the actual file.
There are other examples, like software related sites.
And of course nobody is interested in reading faked news or listening to phony radio stations…
http://www.gotradio.com/index.aspx
The biggest joke of them all.
If you want to add stuff like this, you might just as well add half the Internet. Or even more. After all, small sites are more likely to get compromised than CNN, ABC, the BBC or Google…
The program desperately needs an option to disable it (preferably completely close it), so you can run it only when you think there actually is some use in doing that.
Hahahaha!!!
http://www.****.com/main/home/default/ ??? 88) [link modified due the contents - Ark]
I’ll continue adding examples to this list until the program is updated. :P0l
Feel free to join in.
Another file host. :P0l
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Someone was worried about getting fake Whois information. :P0l
I don’t think it’s working like the SiteAdvisor. In that case, you need to upload a file to the server, then they’ll review your site (or links, etc.). VE won’t check links - far as i know - but the links, e.g. www.fakesite.com/paypal.com/index.html won’t give you green border but paypal.com will do. It doesn’t matter what links the fakesite got.
Do not post links to sites which may contain sexually explicit contents, thank you!