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Best 2009 software review

http://www.2009securitysoftwarereviews.com/

I was having a look round to see the reviews for the best paid software and found this and yet I have never heard of the top one and yet the one most talk about ie Kaspersky is not one the list

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  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Maybe because the owner of the Review site owns the Shield Delux Site as well.

    With over 50 posts you have the benefit of the doubt but if you were a new poster I would have a spam sign in this reply.:):)
    Whois Record

    Registrant:
    Star Advertising, Inc.
    150 West 25th Street
    Suite 904
    New York, New York 10001
    United States

    Domain Name: 2009SECURITYSOFTWAREREVIEWS.COM
    Created on: 17-Jun-08
    Expires on: 18-Jun-10
    Last Updated on: 26-Jun-08

    Administrative Contact:
    Frischman, Arthur
    Star Advertising, Inc.
    150 West 25th Street
    Suite 904
    New York, New York 10001
    United States
    (561) 251-7198 Fax --

    Technical Contact:
    Frischman, Arthur
    Star Advertising, Inc.
    150 West 25th Street
    Suite 904
    New York, New York 10001
    United States
    (561) 251-7198 Fax --

    Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.RACKMY.COM
    NS2.RACKMY.COM
    the other one
    Whois Record

    Registrant:
    PCSecurityShield
    601 N Congress Avenue
    Suite 303
    Delray Beach, Florida 33445
    United States

    Domain Name: PCSECURITYSHIELD.COM
    Created on: 04-Dec-03
    Expires on: 04-Dec-11
    Last Updated on: 28-Aug-06

    Administrative Contact:
    Frischman, Arthur
    PCSecurityShield
    601 N Congress Avenue
    Suite 303
    Delray Beach, Florida 33445
    United States
    5612433247 Fax -- 5612433249

    Technical Contact:
    Frischman, Arthur
    PCSecurityShield
    601 N Congress Avenue
    Suite 303
    Delray Beach, Florida 33445
    United States
    5612433247 Fax -- 5612433249

    Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.RACKMY.COM
    NS2.RACKMY.COM
  • thomas01155
    thomas01155 Posts: 2,382 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Webroot internet security essentials also protects against rootkits
    http://www.webroot.com/En_US/land-WISE-3000.html i'm sure most of them try to protect against rootkits...
    McAfee
    http://us.mcafee.com/root/landingpages/affLandPage.asp?affid=101&lpname=16617&aco=0&cid=50720&siteID=DhslFYKuFRs-f8zSIPya4NYWWvYk4P%2FduA
    Fast Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware Protection
    Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, adware and rootkits.
  • With over 50 posts you have the benefit of the doubt but if you were a new poster I would have a spam sign in this reply.:):)


    Many thanks for the info, it goes to show that you can never 100 % trust what you read . I should have smell a rat as I had never heard of the top one
  • thomas01155
    thomas01155 Posts: 2,382 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Security Shield 2009 looks like some sort of fake antivirus :confused:
    Look at the logo for it LOL its awful
    how come kaspersky isn't on the test :p
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,872 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I should have smell a rat as I had never heard of the top one

    Most of the links in your original post also seem to be affiliate click-harvesting links and not what they appear to be.
  • ^ all affiliate links of 1 kind or another, the OP should edit top post to remove the links
    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.
  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Or simply bin the whole post lol :)
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