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Microsoft Security Essentials

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I never expected this. Microsoft is famous for its greed for money and go about overcharging everything and expecting money wherever ethically should be free. I mean seriously, if a dad buys a product, he has to buy a separate license, if he has to share it with his son. Legally seems right, but ethically NOT. Now who would expect somebody like that to give away stuff for free, right?? That's exactly what Microsoft did. They made a security suite and its FREE for anybody with a genuine windows. The installer is just under 5MB(for my Windows 7 x64) and the installation happens in warp speed. The time takes when you do your very first update. You see, Microsoft made the installer in such a way that it does not contain any virus definitions at all. So, this is definitely not to be installed on a PC tats already infected. The settings are all great and easy to understand. So, it scores a lot for user-friendliness. However, I do miss the option of customizations which howeve...

ZoneAlarm Acquired by Norton???

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Did Norton acquire ZoneAlarm(Checkpoint)?? The above screen pretty much reminds me too much about Norton 360(refer my post about it to know why). I thought of waiting for a day. But I just can't. This thing is making it impossible for me to use my computer by slowing things down. I am beginning to think that Nortons a lot better at this. I am going back to my bitdefender total security(so far the best I've seen).

ZoneAlarm Extreme Security

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This is what I have been seeing ever since I installed ZoneAlarm Extreme Security on my HP G60. I remember the days I used to love the ZoneAlarm products. This ones clearly a disspointment. I had to shut it down to access my blog to post this. I am really tempted to uninstall and go back to bitdefender. However lets wait for one more day(lets not be too hasty :) )...