Was the exe/zip digitally signed?

Yes by Actual Experience, exe installer.

Did you notice:-

In reply to a post by Kezkay:

Ours is slightly different, in that it captures the entire digital supply chain to several different targets out on the internet - beyond your local broadband supplier network - and also incorporates your LAN depending on where the host machine is.

So as well as, by the look of that, checking the destination of every (request) packet you send, it also has a look at what you are doing on your LAN if you have one.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 28-Jan-14 16:00:41)

Back to telephone banking?

http://www.cityam.com/article/1389585006/actual-expe...

The company appears legal.
However I cannot understand why Ofcom would use

In reply to a post by Banger:

Errrm, looked legit to me. I shall use another machine for banking Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Yep, we have that same problem where I work!! We really wish we could get this guy (Hindsight) employed much earlier!!

Apologies if my earlier posting appeared to be patronising (I've now re-read it) it wasn't meant to be as we have all done things that, in Hindsight, wasn't perhaps the most sensible!!

Can I just justify my post by saying that I had my tongue firmly planted in my cheek when I wrote it!

In reply to a post by Banger:

Back to telephone banking?

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Dear Sir, I don't represent HindsightisFree. inc.acme. ,so please download our Free Keylogger search tool and check your passwords, Bank details, and sock under bed stash, for hidden malware .

Boltneckopen.exe:> and click ok run

Getting data now, facebook performance is yellow (avg) but everything else is green. Will wait for 24 hours of data to see how it performs.

Hi RobertoS

Apologies for the delay, I was not online yesterday.

Our measurements do not use the router at your home as the end target. Unlike a lot of other measurement tools that do this, we are actually targetting several places around the internet from your home address, and taking measurements of those.

These include a well known DNS service, iPlayer, Netflix, Skype, Facebook, and an online gaming target.

You may not be using any or all of these targets, but this is part of the point - we never, ever look at anything you use your broadband connection or computer for. Instead, we are looking at end-to-end infrastructure, and seeing how well your connection would support popular applications if you were to use them, by running the measurements through our algorithms. When you do actually use one of the applications we list, we�d therefore expect our results to show something similar to your actual experience.

Being able to tell you how things would work lets you know if it�s worth trying to use iPlayer at all, or at what time a Skype call will work best. For example, some of our BBfixers have told us that this has really helped them understand why things seem to work poorly at certain times - a very frustrating experience.

The principles behind what we do are aligned to what MOS did for the voice world, as explained in my original post. MOS worked - the algorithm reliably returned a mean opinion score that related to what the humans were feeding back. Fixed line voice over the PSTN is essentially perfect today, and this is due to MOS. It's still used, as we know.

We're doing the same - just with the capability to consider other applications.

I hope this helps.

Thanks
Kes

Edited by deleted (Wed 29-Jan-14 10:09:00)

Hi MrSaffron

This was a private tender issued to multiple parties. As mentioned in the original post, we have no way to clarify or confirm who those other parties were.

As also mentioned in the original post, the Ofcom Customer Care Team (CCT) have been briefed and will happily confirm their relationship with us should anyone want to check with them.

Thanks and regards
Kes