[1] The CCSS Forum was formed with the following goals: In 2009, Melih Abdulhayoğlu organized the Common Computing Security Standards Forum initially for the purpose of maintaining a list of legitimate antivirus engines.

This was in response to "scareware" products that present themselves as antivirus software but are either adware or malware.

[2][3] According to the FBI, they are aware of an estimated loss to victims from rogue antivirus software of as much as $150 million.

[4][5] The CCSS maintains a so-called "whitelist" of legitimate organizations that provide antivirus systems.

The "Trusted Vendors" list can be viewed on the organization's web site, http://www.ccssforum.org Archived 2021-01-25 at the Wayback Machine