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pam123
10-29-2005, 05:22 PM
It's about time.
Starting next week PC-Cillin ships on Dells : http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1879178,00.asp
rspassey
10-29-2005, 05:26 PM
Nice!!! Great for new Dell buyers and people new to computers in general.
mbossman2
10-29-2005, 05:44 PM
trend has been driving hard lately in the commercial partnering space...their network based antivirus is embedded in several IPS/Anti-X appliances from some of the major network players.
Jaggannath
10-29-2005, 09:36 PM
Great... my Dell bought at the start of the year came with McCrappee, and now they get something good. Typical
David M
10-30-2005, 12:06 AM
So now we have Peter Norton crying about PC-cillin and Bill Gates crying over Linux and Google.

Life's a b_tch isn't it? :)
blue60007
10-30-2005, 12:44 AM
Great... my Dell bought at the start of the year came with McCrappee, and now they get something good. Typical

Mine didn't come with anything
Panama Red
10-30-2005, 12:53 AM
Great... my Dell bought at the start of the year came with McCrappee, and now they get something good. Typical

Doesn't matter. They're both only good for 90 days and then ya gotta pay!;)
Byte 2.0
10-30-2005, 08:01 AM
90 days is not worth it.

I still use AVG free on my computers and get updates every 2 or 3 days.

Plus on other machines I spected has having viri- Symantec missed it, uninstalled and installed AVG and found the infection.
pam123
10-30-2005, 08:26 AM
Most people continue with whatever trial software they get.
That being the case, I'm all for TrendMicro.
Jaggannath
10-30-2005, 09:05 AM
Yup, if it came with PC-cillin I'd have stuck with it... however, McCrappee is so awful I uninstalled it first thing I did and got AVG. I didn't have the choice of nothing :(
thefultonhow
10-30-2005, 12:55 PM
Most people continue with whatever trial software they get.
That being the case, I'm all for TrendMicro.

Yeah, but most of those don't renew the definition update subscription either. About 75% of my customers (and students coming into the computer clinic in college) were running expired trial versions. My college even paid for a schoolwide license for McAfee Enterprise (which is very good; I run it instead of AVG), and people still streamed in with 90-day trials of Norton which had been on there for months.
kram 2.0
10-30-2005, 01:57 PM
90 days is not worth it.
Still, that's enough to get some typical oblivious user to pitch money into it. Others will refuse to have an AV software.

kram
glc
10-30-2005, 02:01 PM
I love it when people avoid paying $40 or so to have good protection, then pay me up to $200 to clean their machine.
rspassey
10-30-2005, 02:04 PM
I love it when people avoid paying $40 or so to have good protection, then pay me up to $200 to clean their machine.

Its the business - most aren't aware they can easily protect their machines for free - and don't want to pay for the software - so in the end they are in deeper than before - have to pay to get their pc cleaned and to have some sort of software loaded on it.
Force Flow
10-30-2005, 09:47 PM
I love it when people avoid paying $40 or so to have good protection, then pay me up to $200 to clean their machine.

Isn't that the sad truth.