Monday, March 07, 2005
Two dollars for antivirus and firewall if you can get the rebate
Buy.com is offering Trend Micro's PC-cillin security suite for $1.99 after rebate.
Rumor has it the rebate is hard to get and that online registration is having problems right now. Check the return policy.
The product itself is a reasonable choice. Trend Micro's anti-virus software has earned a solid reputation over the years. The most useful feature in my professional opinion is that it checks your system for newly discovered vulnerabilities and sends you to Windows Update if necessary. Home PCs are a lot less insecure if you keep up on administration, so anything that helps is a Good Idea.
A few other features sound nifty but aren't as good as they sound. Trend included anti-spyware software but, like all antispyware, it doesn't catch everything. There's a feature to protect you from phishing scams. The threat's real enough, but the way it works has limits. All the feature does is block access to known web sites that scammers have set up. Unfortunately the scammers set up new web sites all the time and each one only stays up for a few hours, days at most. The list of web sites to block will always be out of date. There's a feature to detect intruders on your wireless network, but first of all, what would you do if it finds one? Second, why didn't you turn on the security feature of your wireless network to begin with? Third, it won't catch eavesdroppers who don't try to join your network.
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Rumor has it the rebate is hard to get and that online registration is having problems right now. Check the return policy.
The product itself is a reasonable choice. Trend Micro's anti-virus software has earned a solid reputation over the years. The most useful feature in my professional opinion is that it checks your system for newly discovered vulnerabilities and sends you to Windows Update if necessary. Home PCs are a lot less insecure if you keep up on administration, so anything that helps is a Good Idea.
A few other features sound nifty but aren't as good as they sound. Trend included anti-spyware software but, like all antispyware, it doesn't catch everything. There's a feature to protect you from phishing scams. The threat's real enough, but the way it works has limits. All the feature does is block access to known web sites that scammers have set up. Unfortunately the scammers set up new web sites all the time and each one only stays up for a few hours, days at most. The list of web sites to block will always be out of date. There's a feature to detect intruders on your wireless network, but first of all, what would you do if it finds one? Second, why didn't you turn on the security feature of your wireless network to begin with? Third, it won't catch eavesdroppers who don't try to join your network.
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