[aarhus2004]

Hello,

F-Secure's website-overview here.

For someone whose interest in security software or freeware in minimal this may be considered a strange review choice. But for someone interest in what his ISP is up to or all about it may be understandable. Shaw Cable of Canada offers as a part of their Internet access package a software download which they say is free. A download highly recommended by Shaw ensuring their customers security from the myriads of nasties rampant on the Net. They call it Shaw Secure. It is F-Secure to all intents and purposes. A package of 'value' $80.00 for the first year. I tried it out.

I had far more positive responses to it than negative ones. The latter were two. The first was a picky resentment of the GUI's colours which made old eyes struggle; the second prompted me to get rid of it. A taxing job but nothing compared with, say, Norton - why get rid of it? Because Windows Millennium hated it, even though it was touted as being for '98 and 'ME. The download size was 60MBs (if memory serves). The resource demand was too much for my system and there was no yielding-up of resource usage once it was running. On 2000 or XP no doubt it would be fine.

Oh, and by the way, the system checker before the download said, 'OK, go ahead'.

Cheers.

Ben.

[Super-D-38]

Well, I hope they changed it since I tried it last.. Voiced my feelings here; http://forums.techguy.org/reviews/42...ure-worth.html

[neos1]

http://forums.techguy.org/reviews/42...ure-worth.html

A few months ago F-Secure was offering a 6mo. free trial, so I tried it. I uninstalled it less than a week later and ran an hijack this to look for any residuals left behind. The only way that I was able to completely uninstall was to email the company and they sent an uninstall script that removed the rest.

[Jomama46]

I Hate That Kind Of Trap-crap!