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This Let's Encrypt fiasco is just another example of how low Comodo's business practices really are.

http://blog.emsisoft.com/2016/...

A new funding model for the 2016 U.S. elections?

I wondered why the summary has links to articles on Softpedia and Bleeping Computer instead of linking directly to Emsisoft, whose employee wrote the decryption utility. But it seems Emsisoft has dropped the ball, as they have nothing on their home page or their blog or their changelog that mentions this tool. In fact I can't find any reference to this on their site at all, which makes me suspicious about downloading it.

Both of the articles in the summary point to a link on emsi.at instead of emsisoft.com. Domain registration and name servers point to emsi.at being a legitimate host under the control of Emsisoft, but who knows? What a weird way to release a security tool, with zero announcements on your company website and the download hosted at a URL shortener.

I wondered why the summary has links to articles on Softpedia and Bleeping Computer instead of linking directly to Emsisoft, whose employee wrote the decryption utility. But it seems Emsisoft has dropped the ball, as they have nothing on their home page or their blog or their changelog that mentions this tool. In fact I can't find any reference to this on their site at all, which makes me suspicious about downloading it.

Both of the articles in the summary point to a link on emsi.at instead of emsisoft.com. Domain registration and name servers point to emsi.at being a legitimate host under the control of Emsisoft, but who knows? What a weird way to release a security tool, with zero announcements on your company website and the download hosted at a URL shortener.

I wondered why the summary has links to articles on Softpedia and Bleeping Computer instead of linking directly to Emsisoft, whose employee wrote the decryption utility. But it seems Emsisoft has dropped the ball, as they have nothing on their home page or their blog or their changelog that mentions this tool. In fact I can't find any reference to this on their site at all, which makes me suspicious about downloading it.

Both of the articles in the summary point to a link on emsi.at instead of emsisoft.com. Domain registration and name servers point to emsi.at being a legitimate host under the control of Emsisoft, but who knows? What a weird way to release a security tool, with zero announcements on your company website and the download hosted at a URL shortener.

An external USB DVD with read and write capabilities cost less than a packet of cigarettes in English speaking countries. They are almost as thin as the DVDs themselves they are used on laptops and small office servers. Virus spyware malware scanners work from so-called cloud-based because of the storage capability that is needed to detect all the known viruses and Trojans and spyware that are created every day. That means you have somebody who has the capability to monitor everything you do regardless of VPNs that you may use. The U.S. has a law that can demand any U.S. software or hardware company must give the U.S. spy agency the capabilities to spy on you and they are intoxicated with that power. A U.S. antivirus product would not be a good idea. Emsisoft, does a all in one product I think they are Austrian, and also have a base in New Zealand. http://www.emsisoft.com/ one of us has an account with these people. These days you cannot trust any software company, and as they say with software paranoia is a sense of awareness. it is not that I have something worth spying on it is just that I would like to have something that belongs to me.

I've been seeing variations on this one for a year or two now, sometimes connected with the "Yahoo Porn Bug" I wrote about in my journal, sometimes not. The main thing when it comes to a lot of this crap is to explain and assure the public its bullshit, you'd be amazed how many can be put into panic mode by a letter that looks like it comes from authority and of course guys getting child porn charges for Simpsons cartoons and manga really doesn't fucking help matters in that regard.

Now I don't know how it is on OSX but on Windows these kinds of bugs aren't that hard to kill a good tool for the job I've been trying out in the shop is the Emisoft Emergency Kit which is free for personal use but so far looks to be worth the cost of a license if you work in a shop. The whole thing runs on a stick and so far it seems to be pretty damned good at detecting all kinds of bugs and its CLI scanner so far has been pretty good at getting around the run blocks some of the malware uses.

While you're decrypting your Sup3rs3kr3t w4r3z on the usb key, any malware* you haven't found yet is potentially logging every keystroke. You need to choose windows, or security; you really can't have both.

[*] - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/malware/?Adware.Win32.P owered+Keylogger