2009/9/17 Venkat Inumella <[email protected]> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So instead of trusting my antivirus software which says that the site is > > secure > > When Norton flags a website as secure, it only means that the site is > not a known phishing site and doesn't install any known > spyware/malware. The point everyone is making is that Norton has > absolutely no way to know what the site - Dropbox, in this instance - > does with the data you provide them, such as your personal details or, > worse, your gmail passwords. It'd be pretty dim for any business to > give Norton, or anybody, that level of access to their business > processes. > > This is all your $$ bought you: > http://www.symantec.com/norton/security_response/browsewebsafely.jsp >
Not really. Those are obviously the top three threats. But they also mention if its safe to share personal/financial details on the site i.e. so that credit cards and passwords are not stolen. "steal your credit card numbers or passwords" http://safeweb.norton.com/about I'm not plonking down $$ for nothing. Now, do you suppose a company in litigious US would ever mention that on their website without actively doing something to ensure it? Obviously Norton doesn't know the inner workings of the website, but there are other ways of ensuring security. I just learned that Dropbox uses Amazon's could DB, so that could be a reason. Maybe they have certificates somewhere on the site which Norton trusts etc. etc. Kiran
