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<blockquote data-quote="gorblimey" data-source="post: 1072725" data-attributes="member: 65556">No.&nbsp; Most people won&#039;t ever notice the compulsory Christmas upgrade because they upgrade all the time, and are reasonably current at Christmas/New Year.&nbsp; But Luddites (research it!) like me don&#039;t, so we have to be reminded.Nobody is asking Dan to do more work.&nbsp; And I have made it plain that I for one would happily keep paying the annual on an &quot;obsolete&quot; edition which -- Surprise!!!!!! -- still works as advertised due to good engineering in the first place.I have lots of software which has not been upgraded in over 20 years. They still work perfectly.&nbsp; And I upgrade my browser as soon as one is available, because the author is pushing faeces uphill trying to keep up with the latest scripting atrocities.&nbsp; Further, CL isn&#039;t the only anti-malware in place.&nbsp; I&#039;ll leave it to other people to work out how a good firewall can be considered as anti-malware.&nbsp; And I have a Windows version of SUDO <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />A bit of perspective to finish:&nbsp; Remember CryptoPrevent?&nbsp; I had it when it was very new.&nbsp; And it did work, I watched it happen on my screen.&nbsp; And then it became bloatware, difficult to work with.&nbsp; Just as VoodooShield appeared!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gorblimey, post: 1072725, member: 65556"] No. Most people won't ever notice the compulsory Christmas upgrade because they upgrade all the time, and are reasonably current at Christmas/New Year. But Luddites (research it!) like me don't, so we have to be reminded. Nobody is asking Dan to do more work. And I have made it plain that I for one would happily keep paying the annual on an "obsolete" edition which -- [B]Surprise!!!!!![/B] -- still works as advertised due to good engineering in the first place. I have lots of software which has not been upgraded in over 20 years. They still work perfectly. And I upgrade my browser as soon as one is available, because the author is pushing faeces uphill trying to keep up with the latest scripting atrocities. Further, CL isn't the only anti-malware in place. I'll leave it to other people to work out how a good firewall can be considered as anti-malware. And I have a Windows version of SUDO :) A bit of perspective to finish: Remember CryptoPrevent? I had it when it was very new. And it did work, I watched it happen on my screen. And then it became bloatware, difficult to work with. Just as VoodooShield appeared! [/QUOTE]

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