Having to purchase Virus Software for my Workstation is extortion. Bill Gates and company, if you can't write a browser and an operating system that can fend off viruses and malware, then you are in the wrong business. Some research I did showed that we are spending $16.4 billion yearly on Virus protection software. Those of us who can afford it. Those of us who can't are suffering the results. Malware downloaded to our machines, our CPU slowing down, strange emails going out. And worse things, like dish crashes or phishing.
Windows 8 is supposed to come out with Window's defender, which supposedly will be free, part of the operating system, and could make Norton and McAfee obsolete.
But what stops Microsoft from supplying a few hackers out there with a new virus, imperious to defender (or Norton or McAfee), then charging us for the cure...
I love conspiracy theories....
And hate having to pay for something that should be part of the make up of the computer.
It's like having to pay for my own white blood cells.
Cheers, nca
p.s. I did have to pay for blood cells...when I was in the hospital. Seemed kind of funny, all those gallons I donated all through the years, I should have built up some credit.
