The main purpose of the digital certificate is to ensure that the application belongs to the entity to which the certificate was issued. The Sunbelt Software digital certificate does not guarantee that a signed application is safe to run, but rather informs the user that the software was digitally signed by Sunbelt Software and verified by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
Sunbelt Software was a computer security software company based in Clearwater, Florida. GFI Software acquired it in full on July 13, 2010. Among its products are Sunbelt Personal Firewall, Counterspy, VIPRE Antivirus, Sunbelt CWSandbox and ThreatTrack. And of course we can't forget about the award winning I Hate Spam product.
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