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Fake antivirus programs under the guise of comodo ca
Rogue Antivirus (fake antivirus) - a program that simulates the action of anti-virus product that detects the system psevdovirusy and demanding money or pay for their treatment, or to download updates that are already present with spyware. Despite the obviousness of a "divorce", many users are unaware that the object of fraud. Especially those who believe in a secure certificates issued by trusted attestatorami.

One user wrote a blog about how he was one of the next ofsayta Rogue antivirus (guardlab2009.com), faced with the fact that the certificate was issued by none other than by Comodo CA, a graduating class of the same name Internet Security, previously known as a good free firewall. Check the website on the same IP, the author noticed that Comodo CA issued certificates and other similar "fake", some of which really is spyware. For example, secure.a5bill.com distributes under the brand Win32/Adware.CoreguardAntivirus.



The interesting thing is that the certificates, the shelf life expires, and still get the extension from Comodo. Thus, rapid-antivir-2009.com, rapid-antivir2009.com, rapid-antivirus2009.com, forwarded to secure.xsoftstore.com have a certificate issued before April 28, 2009. However, now it uses an updated certificate to the end of July.

The official response from the company Comodo CA for treatment of a blogger so far not followed.

Update: the list of the most famous sites with fake antivirus programs
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