How Dr.Web sold Kaspersky, or About glitches of online stores
It is strange that such a curiosity passed by Habrahabr ...
Remember how Apple advertised Windows 7 ? Today (December 10) there was a more interesting case: on the website of one manufacturer of antivirus solutions products from other manufacturers were sold ! I mean competitors
(click on the picture to see a screenshot of the entire page)
Going to buy a product of Dr.Web, click on the link, get on the description on Kaspersky Internet Security and even make out an order ...
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... and maybe also avast! to take?
Confirmation of the incident can be found on the Dr.Web forum.
It is clear that the reason for such an assumption lies on the side of the online store, which supports the performance of the relevant section on the site. In this case, it is Allsoft. According to information from the forum LC
The accident was fixed pretty quickly. The link is now broken, as it should be: store.drweb.com/home.php?id=60707
In the store on the Kaspersky site, you can now buy, for example, Norton Internet Security
but only if you experiment with the address bar .
However, as I understand it, there is no such obvious puncture as above (follow the link and see what we expected to see), it’s just that the softkey does not have a filter for banning the display / order of other programs. This is bad, but a visitor to the store for no reason will not see someone else's antivirus
Link for buying Norton: www.softkey.ru/catalog/program.php?ID=84368&site=642
In general, it is interesting to listen to your comments. Additional information and amendments are welcome.
Remember how Apple advertised Windows 7 ? Today (December 10) there was a more interesting case: on the website of one manufacturer of antivirus solutions products from other manufacturers were sold ! I mean competitors
(click on the picture to see a screenshot of the entire page)
Going to buy a product of Dr.Web, click on the link, get on the description on Kaspersky Internet Security and even make out an order ...
')
... and maybe also avast! to take?
Confirmation of the incident can be found on the Dr.Web forum.
It is clear that the reason for such an assumption lies on the side of the online store, which supports the performance of the relevant section on the site. In this case, it is Allsoft. According to information from the forum LC
there was an admin error (e-store) and an online store error (Allsoft)
The accident was fixed pretty quickly. The link is now broken, as it should be: store.drweb.com/home.php?id=60707
In the store on the Kaspersky site, you can now buy, for example, Norton Internet Security
but only if you experiment with the address bar .
However, as I understand it, there is no such obvious puncture as above (follow the link and see what we expected to see), it’s just that the softkey does not have a filter for banning the display / order of other programs. This is bad, but a visitor to the store for no reason will not see someone else's antivirus
Link for buying Norton: www.softkey.ru/catalog/program.php?ID=84368&site=642
In general, it is interesting to listen to your comments. Additional information and amendments are welcome.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/77891/
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