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Mon, 28 May 2007 03:01:56 +0000

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Money Smart Life » Personal Finance Review - Backup Your Data Edition — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:45:07 +0000

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By: Tom Mangone

Tom Mangone — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:50:45 +0000

When you’re getting that ‘great’ deal for the Norton, don’t forget to add $12.50 a month for ID Theft Insurance for 2 people, $25,000 each, zero deductible. Because that is what you get with your Invisus subscription and that is what it will cost you if you buy it by itself. That makes the Invisus solution on $2.49 a month, and that includes unlimited technical support, 7AM MT – 7PM MT M-F, Sat. 7AM to 2PM.

And of course you will be speaking to Norton’s technical support, in India, as opposed to staying USA with the Invisus Direct support team.

Did you update with the brand new V2 of Counter spy that is in the Invisus suite?

They have the only product that scans for Spy ware up on start up. That is really big. And they picked up the recent Internet Explorer 7 Phising Scam when you manually type in Ebay.com, Paypal.com, and a few banks that are exposed as of now, it takes the information that you thought you were typing to another website. Norton’s 360 bypassed that. Let me know if you would dike me to email you the complete release on that.

Good luck.

Tom Mangone
Internet Safety Advocate

By: Oleg K.

Oleg K. — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:36:28 +0000

Buying anti-virus software is a waste of money. There are equally good and sometimes better options available for free.

This website has a whole bunch of resources for free. I have AVG on my home laptop and I install AVG, BitDefender and AntiVir on the computers of my clients.

Generally one of the first things I do when I start optimizing a client’s computer is uninstall the Norton and Mcafee anti-virus suites. They’re mostly clunky and inefficient, plus, after the whatever free trail they give you, they start charging you for updates, no good.

Try out the free software options, you won’t be disappointed.