As many of us work our way through school we look for every means to keep a dollar in our pocket. Being we are all IS major, many of us spend the majority of their on either school or their home computers. Recently, after having my personal anti-virus expire, i was feeling less than eager to kick out another $49 for another years subscription.
Many of you don't know that Eastern has a partership with Mcafee to keep the school and its students pc's clean. Free Anti-virus . You can get access to the free 2 year subscription to Mcafee Corporate Edition. I greatly like the corporate versions of many kinds of software. I find them cleaner and with less flash in the pan. They tend not to be the most initially user friendly, but after some use often open up features you would of not had access to before in a retail copy.
The only downside is at this time the do not have a wholy compatible version for Win 7. Many users have simple installed the vista version with ease. Over time this creates system instability issues and improper firewall blocking by Win7 as well as incorrect file quarentine. Until the new compatible version becomes available there is always Panda!
Wow this is interesting, the first time I have heard of this. Thanks for the tip....in the future I will definitely check out this opportunity, of course to save money, as our tuition keeps increasing. I'll bet there are plenty of students out there that have never heard about this and therefore....I think this was an EXCELLENT POST!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Patty, thank you for the post. My laptop's antivirus just expired and I also did not want to shell out $50, although it would be a wise investment.
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