It seems like a simple thing, a necessasity to have it. So why do we have protection plans that we have to purchase on top of the computer sale, I know you usually get a free 1 year plan... but it's limited and generally sucks.
Why do we have to pay for medical protection? If we're subjected to having to have an insurance program in order to get good health care of any kind, why would computer care be free?
6 Comments to 'How Come We Have To Pay To Protect Our Computers?'
January 29, 2010
Why do we have to pay for medical protection? If we’re subjected to having to have an insurance program in order to get good health care of any kind, why would computer care be free?
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January 29, 2010
most that you pay for are a rip off anyway>i never buy them and have never needed them
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January 29, 2010
We wouldn’t have to pay, but people are lazy and they write viruses for living. Without hackers our computers would be clean.
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Personal knowledge.
January 29, 2010
One word Capitalism.
An anti virus program is just a computerized version of a human health care, or even a pet plan. You have to pay to protect your computer form viruses, just like you have to pay to get shots to protect your kids from flu.
Of course, you could just go unprotected. Just like you don’t have to purchase private health care.
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January 29, 2010
don’t run windows.
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January 29, 2010
I blame Microsoft’s continuing policy of ‘convenience & flexibility’ before security.
For some examples (from Security Now: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-232.htm)
"…unfortunately Microsoft’s install base and their previously lax security prevents them from just turning up the security all at once. So very much like how in XP they introduced a firewall, but it wasn’t turned on by default. Then in Vista they introduced, or actually at some point in XP also DEP, the Data Execution Prevention technology, but it wasn’t really turned on very strong. Then with Service Pack 2 of XP they started turning on the firewall by default. So they’ve sort of been creeping along, tightening things down as they go. And I’ve, of course, for years been railing against the idea that scripting was on in email by default. Well, of course that finally got turned off along the way because no one ever did use it. But Microsoft just has to be sort of, you know, to very slowly move forward…"
This ‘security vacuum’ on the Windows OS leaves the field wide open for profiteers.
Keep your eyes open though…freeware is available that does a fair job: the rest comes from using your head to avoid the pitfalls of the ‘Net.
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