tansis
New Member
Found an odd quirk of WinXp or weakness in the software of a purveyor of popular antivirus software depending on how one looks at it.
As part of routince system maintenance I reload the operating system once a year to clear out all those niggly little programs that are transient and stay resident.. you know the sort of thing , horrid little pop ups that say " your free trial has expired " or please register your printer"
Anyhow , the norton antivirus had expired, or rather the weekly updates had and had been holding on re subscribing out co's funds were tight besides my ISP checks my incoming mail before I get it and the AV was still active and doing a fine job, provided no new viruses were about I could sleep easy. This time after I reloaded the operating system I figured I would reload the AV from scratch and therefore fool it into giving me 15 day free trial ( complete with new updates) giving me till the end of the month when I had for a fleeting moment some cash...
It seems to have dropped a clanger, the expiry date now reads 12 months from now, did not ask me to re enter the code and I've never given them my card details so they cant have a deduction pending on my bank balance....
thoughts anyone ?
As part of routince system maintenance I reload the operating system once a year to clear out all those niggly little programs that are transient and stay resident.. you know the sort of thing , horrid little pop ups that say " your free trial has expired " or please register your printer"
Anyhow , the norton antivirus had expired, or rather the weekly updates had and had been holding on re subscribing out co's funds were tight besides my ISP checks my incoming mail before I get it and the AV was still active and doing a fine job, provided no new viruses were about I could sleep easy. This time after I reloaded the operating system I figured I would reload the AV from scratch and therefore fool it into giving me 15 day free trial ( complete with new updates) giving me till the end of the month when I had for a fleeting moment some cash...
It seems to have dropped a clanger, the expiry date now reads 12 months from now, did not ask me to re enter the code and I've never given them my card details so they cant have a deduction pending on my bank balance....
thoughts anyone ?