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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 697609" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>Voted yes, but I am not going to buy it right now. Emsisoft seems headed in a very good direction, and the offer seems in the spirit of the season. I do agree that specialized software should not be free. That said, it is wise to me that security companies offer free security applications. For example, Comodo could easily cash in on their contributions to free security at some point if they can seriously get in the game with endpoint software. That would put the company in a position to continue to offer the free software for home use. This is true of all companies.</p><p></p><p>There will always be free security software. The good karma is too good to pass on. That said, a company like Kas or Emsi moving more toward software for a price doesn't intimidate me as long as the software is worth the extra expense. In this case, Emsisoft deserves the money imo.</p><p></p><p>For me btw, the reasoning that the money incentive could mean that a company would commit a crime (introducing malware) to intimidate its customers seems to me like a ludicrous idea. Imagine if this happened and the company were caught. None of the major companies would take this risk, although I wouldn't be 100% surprised if this type of thing may have happened in the past. Maybe some isolated set of employees in a security company seeking to create a stir and somehow benefit on a personal level might have at some point done something like this. Don't think recently though (early 2000s or so maybe). So, yes someone within a company who wrote or viewed malware could say he had an idea about how to stop one he participated in creating. Anyway, this would be practically impossible for a security company as an entity to actually do without being noticed and eventually caught. It wouldn't make sense to even think of such a thing for them. And one more thing. If anything the shortage of money is a more powerful incentive than too much for the kind of person who would be prone to try to do this...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 697609, member: 32547"] Voted yes, but I am not going to buy it right now. Emsisoft seems headed in a very good direction, and the offer seems in the spirit of the season. I do agree that specialized software should not be free. That said, it is wise to me that security companies offer free security applications. For example, Comodo could easily cash in on their contributions to free security at some point if they can seriously get in the game with endpoint software. That would put the company in a position to continue to offer the free software for home use. This is true of all companies. There will always be free security software. The good karma is too good to pass on. That said, a company like Kas or Emsi moving more toward software for a price doesn't intimidate me as long as the software is worth the extra expense. In this case, Emsisoft deserves the money imo. For me btw, the reasoning that the money incentive could mean that a company would commit a crime (introducing malware) to intimidate its customers seems to me like a ludicrous idea. Imagine if this happened and the company were caught. None of the major companies would take this risk, although I wouldn't be 100% surprised if this type of thing may have happened in the past. Maybe some isolated set of employees in a security company seeking to create a stir and somehow benefit on a personal level might have at some point done something like this. Don't think recently though (early 2000s or so maybe). So, yes someone within a company who wrote or viewed malware could say he had an idea about how to stop one he participated in creating. Anyway, this would be practically impossible for a security company as an entity to actually do without being noticed and eventually caught. It wouldn't make sense to even think of such a thing for them. And one more thing. If anything the shortage of money is a more powerful incentive than too much for the kind of person who would be prone to try to do this... [/QUOTE]
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