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Autorenewal Lurks in Spyware Doctor | 34 comments (34 topical) | Post A Comment
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by aoz on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 02:25:51 AM PDT

I despise autorenewals. suppose you've quit using the product? suppose you've quit using that machine? all they ahve to do is have a subroutine built into their program, so that when your computer goes online, to get autoupdates, it checks date, and if you are BEYOND date, have giant screen that flashes up - YOU need to RENEW - either ACCEPT or DECLINE - and realize that by DECLINING you are LOSING valuable virus PROTECTION - and just flash this message every time the system checks for updates of the virus program @@ then you can NEVER say you were not aware that your program expired @@@ ALSO, to counter this, always use single-use virtual credit card numbers ! nick

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agree one time credit cards are the answer[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by RichNRockville on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 02:49:09 AM PDT

There are several banks that have credit cards with the option to provide a one time use card number. Either that or each year, call your credit card company and ask them to issue you a new number as you suspect that someone has copied your credit card number and you don't want to keep the old number. Or change credit card companies each year..

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