Do you trust anti-malware from a Chinese source? I've found some good
software from there but anything from there immediately raises a red
flag and must be trialed inside a virtual machine or on a host that is
isolated and non-critical (i.e., a test host that you are willing to
flatten and rebuild).
When you visited their site, did it look professional to you? Why do
you think they plastered their home page with a multitude of "awards"
from other sites? Did you check out those "award" sites? 2 of 5 of
them don't even have links but are just images. One is registered
through Wild West Domains who is known to be a favorite of spammers.
Another they show that has awarded their product doesn't exist. Another
hides behind Godaddy's private registration service. Do they actually
looked like they *reviewed* the product, or do they look like they
merely regurgitated whatever spew the product author told them to
publish? Besides them describing the product (which is what the
publisher told them to say), just exactly WHERE is the "review" there?
Oh, gee, someone somewhere listed their product for download. Big
****ing deal. Ratings are worthless without see the raters' comments.
Their Links page has BuleChillies.com. No such domain but then spammers
often misspell. Maybe they meant BlueChillies.com (Bangladesh) which
gets low rankings at WOT and SiteAdvisor (look at the user reports, not
at McAfee's antiquated value). remove-trojan.com is too new to have a
report at SiteAdvisor and WOT has some negative reports. When YOU went
to their site, did you really feel they exuded the expertise as
presented there that qualifies them as a top-grade anti-malware
producer? For example, just where on their site are you going to lookup
a pest? Or communicate with a community of other users since they
provide no forums? Who told you it was a great product? Just HOW did
you happen across their URL or WHERE did you find it that so entralled
you to trial this payware product?
If you decide to install it, submit its files to VirusTotal.com to see
if real anti-malware products detect it as a trojan itself. There were
enough red flags for this product and site that I wasn't even going to
waste time testing it within a virtual machine.
Are you actually considering BUYING this unknown Chinese program (it
isn't free) when there are plenty of well-known and well-tested FREE
anti-malware programs available? Yep, those Chinese definitely want
your credit card number. Be reckless and give it to them. Actually I
wouldn't be surprised if Ted never replies since his post looks to be
the author pretending to be a user to expose his URL and lure users into
installing his, um, stuff.
