I've been paying an annual fee to McAfee for about ten years for anti-virus protection on this machine and its predecessors and feeling fairly safe because of that coverage.
The subscription has gone up over time; I think it was about to go to $59.95 or close to that. That's getting to be serious money.
The other day I got a Christmas card from my phone company thanking me for my business (landline and DSL). In the body of the card it mentioned that as part of my bundled service I was entitled to McAfee's Security Suite at no additional cost.
Well, rats. How long has that been a freebie?
Anyway, I've now uninstalled my paid version and re-installed through the phone company, thereby saving some bucks. As a bonus I feel like an idiot.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 21, 2010 04:30 PM | TrackBackWell, at least you're an idiot well protected from viruses, hackers and beautiful Swedish blondes still.
Posted by: Kevin Hayden at December 21, 2010 05:01 PMWere beautiful Swedish blondes trying to attack me? How'd I miss that?
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 21, 2010 07:45 PMI had a subscription for McAfee a couple of years ago. I then got an email from my cable provider (then Insight, now Comcast) that, as a part of my internet service, they were going to offer me a free anti-virus program (now Norton but it was a different program at first).
Posted by: James H. at December 21, 2010 07:50 PM