Doctor Four
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1 edit |  Antivirus XP 2008 has its digital certificate revoked
One of the more notorious rogue security programs,
Antivirus XP 2008, was using digitally signed certificates
to make unsuspecting victims think they were legitimate.
That is until today, when GlobalSign revoked their digital
certificate: »www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/16···malware/
This isn't the first time that malware has used digital
certificates to gain users trust. 180 Solutions (now Zango)
used a certificate signed by Verisign for their Search
Assistant's ActiveX install.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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norwegian
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Thanks for the info Doc, quite a valid point, and a concern for the future. Why there wasn't more research done before the cert was given out? I am not trying to be disrespectful to Globalsign, but is/will be a concern I belive as time progresses. How do you deal with this? Glad at least they did revoke it though.
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Kayrac
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Rochester, NH | reply to Doctor Four
Man it's to bad they just realized this, they are moving along nicely to antivirus 2009, and about 100 other named software, which all is probably cert'd as well 
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