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@Simon Please don't take this personally but for several reasons I am not going to answer your question here: 1) This thread was a question about SecDoK. My only intention in answering was to help out googlemad who posted the original question. 2) I've already been sufficiently offended by you to understand that further communication will probably be pointless. 3) I make it a policy not to get involved in egotistical contests on forums. So perhaps you could post the question in a new thread or PM me about it if you are really that interested. Either way, you will probably be respectfully ignored. On the other hand, if there is anything more you would like to know about my experience with SecDoK please feel to askand I'll try my best to share my limited experience with you.

No worries! I'll try not to take it personally. This isn't the first forum I've seen where participants believe that anonymity warrants bad manners to newcomers. I've read the PMs and I had already filled in the personal information. It probably didn't show because I'd already made the last post before making the requested changes. Hopefully the signature will be visible in this post. As regards security being managed by a third party, I didn't think it was such a bad idea at the time and to be honest, like I've already said, I get an awful lot for the tiny subscription I pay. And let's face it, I don't know about you guys, but I don't feel confident enough to be able to secure my home computer and I've never had any problems since I put things in their hands.

Oh dear! Well that wasn't a very welcoming response. Sorry for trying to lend a hand to people without experience in the subject! I didn't realise this thread was dedicated to supporting conspiracy theories only. I'll not bother trying to help again if that's the kind of attitude I'm likely to receive. Like I say, there are so many peer to peer networks out there I really don't understand why you just don't get their binaries and see for yourselves. While that may be less entertaining that playing internet detective it would actually give you the experience to know what you are talking about.

I don't know anything about Lamie certificates or anything like that but I've been subscribed to SecDoK for a while and it's just basically access to a whole load of tutorials that teach you how to lockdown your Windows XP home installation for safe browsing and email and that kind of stuff. They also do some remote configuration for you once youve set the system up how they want it and check for rootkits and such like to make sure there are no hidden processes or key loggers on your home machine. I cant say that being subscribed to SecDoK has ever helped me get a job and personally have never seen an employer request it. I just use it because I don't know if I could be sure of keeping my own machine secure and clean as well as they seem to be able to do it. I haven't seen anything that makes me feel the company are scamming me in any way. The subscription fee is quite cheap and I got quite a lot for my money. The tutorials taught me about an awful lot of free software that I didn't know about before. I hope this helps you understand more about what SecDoK is. There's not much more to say about it really. Have you tried searching peer to peer networks? I'm sure their binaries must be in circulation somewhere.