Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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Tallahassee, FL
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Pretty soon SBC will have both the trial of ZoneAlarm Firewall on the CD and the option to choose an anti-virus program as an option for one of your free premium services. These are both entirely optional and if you don't like them you can just ignore they exist. Of course if one wants help with either they'd have to contact the respective company and not SBC.
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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL
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These are both entirely optional and if you don't like them you can just ignore they exist.
Then the average aohell customer not knowing what is, will ignore it, and will get stuff like msblaster. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | reply to Maxo
Great. So, they roll in charges for PC stuff, even if you aren't using a PC. How nice of them.
-tom
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Maxo
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| said by nixen  :
Great. So, they roll in charges for PC stuff, even if you aren't using a PC. How nice of them.
-tom
What charges are you reffering to? They are both free and are both optional.
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Jhon
join:2001-05-14
Northridge, CA
| said by Maxo :
What charges are you reffering to? They are both free and are both optional.
You think SBC is going to do this out of charity? The 'charges' will be increased rates to the end users -- those with and without PCs -- those with and without existing firewalling solutions. I'd rather see them charge for an OPTIONAL service individually to people that NEED it rather than be REQUIRED to pay for it at any level. |
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Dissman
join:2001-04-26
Youngstown, OH
| Well, umm..
It's one of your premium services available for subscribing to SBC Yahoo! DSL. It's only free in that sense, it's not a something for nothing. You get two free premium services from SBC Yahoo, and one of them can be a firewall, i dont see how that will impact the rest of the people with increased rates. |
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Maxo
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| reply to Jhon
Yeah, your post doesn't make much sense. The trial edition of ZoneAlarm is free for anybody. If anything maybe ZA is paying them to distribute in the hopes that some SBC Customers will decide to upgrade and buy their product. Every SBC Yahoo! customer gets to select premium services. You can get extra e-mail space, online space, as well as other options. On of those other options will soon be the antivirus. So if you don't need or want the antivirus option there are still plenty of other options. And if you go to an SBC forum here and ask anyone if they are upset for what they are paying for you will get a real big no.
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