From: kene@who.cares.com

On Sun, 08 Oct 2017 09:08:03 -0500, kene@who.cares.com wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Oct 2017 09:02:10 -0500, kene@who.cares.com wrote:
>
>>I went to Amazon to renew my Kaspersky AV.  I find  that for half the
>>price of the full program I can buy a Key Card.
>>
>>Am I right in thinking this is a new registration code witout the
>>newer AV program version?
>>
>>I'd renew through Kaspersky, but the greedy jerks seem to now be
>>forcing us to accept an auto renewal.  That is the end of buying from
>>their site.  New vesions too often have the  habit of being "improved"
>>into junk.
>>
>>I cannot believe they're that greedy-stupid.
>>
>>I use Kaspersky because not only is it usually among the top 2 or 3
>>AV's on the testing sites, but it is the least intrusive of all the
>>ones I've tried in the past. 
>>
>>Key Card?  What is it?  If it is a new registration code, why in the
>>heck don't they say that?
>
>I found the meaning of Key Card here
>
>https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx17C5EP...
ing=UTF8&sort=helpful
>
>I also see that buying this product from Amazon means it is not
>returnable nor refundable.
>
>I guess I'm going to a few AV test sites and checking out new AVs.
>
>It's really stupid how Kaspersky's greed ruined things.

It seems their greed has gone to the point of piggybacking something
called HotSpot Shield onto my computer.  The pop ups keep coming,
wanting me to use the damn thing. It entails a monthly charge from
HotSpot Shield.  That they don't tell you until you have accepted the
dang "service" thinking it's part of Kaspersky.  I didn't accept it. I
looked it up on the Web.

I'll have to see how often this crap pops up.  I don't think I'm going
to be buying Kaspersky again.

Here is where I went wrong. I downloaded and installed the newer
version instead of merely using the new registration key for my older
version.  That's what I've been doing for the last 2 - 3 years. I do
that with most renewable programs because I simply don't trust newer
versions.  I goofed this time and merely installed the newer version.

I'm going to have to wait and see just how often this HotSpot crap
bothers me.  It's unbelievable that Kaspersky did this.


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