Kevin McAleavey is First Scientist to Detect New Strain of Malware which Mutates and Jumps from Computers to Humans
COMODO於4/1發佈的消息,宣稱歐洲及亞洲有一票IT工程師不幸感染新種病毒、疫情擴大中……
回題,官方原文(3/22):
As you all know CPF v3 is just around the corner!
CPF3快出了。
CPF is fast becoming a total Anti Malware solution, a proactive defense solution, an Anti hacker product. So calling it just a firewall might not do it a justice.. we need to come up with a better name for it (we think)..
so we need suggestions about what we could call it and we need your input asap (cos we need to launch this baby Smiley )
大意是CPF將成為全面性的Anti Malware solution,能夠預先防禦以及反入侵。所以叫防火牆似乎不太貼切,希望大家幫忙想個好名字。
V3 will be kind of tool, that will literally stop malware (including rootkits) from infecting your system. So if you got a clean system after installing v3, you can pretty much say bye bye to any infection.. So we need a befitting name pls...
V3能夠準確的阻止惡意程式感染系統,所以灌了之後就能高枕無憂,巴啦、巴啦……
應該說是結合入侵防禦與防火牆才對,先前的說法不正確。
COMODO雖然以防火牆廣為人知,但本業是作線上交易的SSL等安全認證。認證費一年$849、Vulnerability scanning services一個月$29.95(防毒軟體用一年的價錢),我想區區一個個人防火牆它們還不會那麼計較……
他們的CEO是
這麼說的(摘要):
COMODO靠商務的數位認證賺錢,我們想使COMODO成為家喻戶曉的名牌,但是我們的銀行帳戶裡沒有5億美金可以讓我們砸下去作廣告。我們有那麼多棒的要命的技術,所以決定提供個人使用者免費的安全軟體。如果一般使用者能夠放心的(把省下來的安全軟體費用拿去)用線上交易,那需要數位認證的商業網站就會更多,因此達成使用者、商業網站、COMODO三贏的局面。
所以想回饋的話,不妨去網路書店之類的交易平台問問它們有沒有認證,並要求它們用大家都聽過的——像是COMODO……