Cyber Defender roque?

Is Cyber Defender roque?

 

Less likely.
Gives free download the file is of 22.6 MB.
But the name do suggest me that it must be a rogue.

Edit : It is a rogue according to this

 

Just fixing one PC and according to Virustotal nobody detect it.

Customer said he did not install it...

 

I can't say anything about this App Just installed it.
Tested against EICAR file and it blocked

 

This would actually be a smart move by fake AV's to detect Eicar and Trojan simulator, Much easy to sucker people in.

 

This product was formerly on the rogue list but has been de-listed for some time.As to whether I'd trust it on my system that's a different ball game.

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/de-listed.htm#cybdef_note

 

Once a rogue always a rouge.
Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. (or an eleven foot pole)

 

When there are plenty of products out there with an impeccable record I can see no good reason to go with something with a shady past,yes they've supposedly gone straight now but who's to say they won't venture to the dark side in future?

 

received some customers saying have it installed but open some website with IE have problem.....fishy

 

This rogue/real software don't support clean up of infections unless you buy this product which acts like a rogue.

But in second case I didn't find any suspicious behavior when I installed it. Also it doesn't have a context menu scan. Nor on full scan it found out like fake infections just to full the user.

 

http://blog.stopbadware.org/2008/11/25/alert-cyberdefender-early-detection-center

http://mysteryfcm.co.uk/?mode=Articles&date=17-04-2007

http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2009/03/rogue-company-cyberdefender-uses-mbam.html

 

Norton does not like it but it lets you sign in and open the site. I have installed this a few years ago and nothing went bad. But now i would not touch it anyway

 

CNET Download.com certifies that its spyware,virus and malware free
http://download.cnet.com/CyberDefender-AntiSpyware/3000-8022_4-10811874.html

 

i saw this on their website but really surprised me a lot

 

Why, when they already show pretty bunch of fake detections?

 

They also host such one's from ParetoLogic as well as from Security Stronghold, which are both strongly suspect as worthless and quite possibly harmful apps.
Too many good and trustworthy security apps out there then to take chance with some of these.

 

True a major trust deficit exists with this product.

 

agree, its not really worth anyones time.

 

I am not sure everyone realizes the significant of this and other similar creations. These FakeAvs are now beginning to straddle the line between completely Fake, and somewhat Fake. I have seen a few where they detect a lot of fake threats but they also provide value by showing entries in the run key, services key etc and allow you to remove them (similar to AutoRuns). Those vendors could argue the Fake Threat detection as just being FPs. But such products are causing real issues for AV vendors because when they put out detection for such threats, there is an increasing number of so-called "vendor disputes", where the vendor claims that their product should not be detected because they are providing a legitimate service (albeit with lots of FPs).

This is a very disturbing trend.

 

It fails to support 9x/ME. In all seriousness, install this with SSM and Kerio 2.1.5 with trigger rules. You shall find that it's very "signal happy" in that it wants send data to many strange URLs.

Dave

 

What can you all say about this

 

some of the well respected av products only used to clean if you paid,the trial would only detect malware,not 100% sure but think Kaspersky used to run like that years ago!

 

Old & discontinued anti-spyware app, de-listed from Spyware Warrior's list back in 2005 You can find it on softpedia

 

Not a very high opinion from WOT.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/doctor-alex.com

 

Yeah I remember.
Even today some the products requires you to pay to clean the detection PrevX to name.