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onDvine
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Re: Unsticking yourself from your security app

said by buttoni See Profile :

Thanks for the EULAlyzer tip! ...
You're welcome. "They" often sneak in a phrase giving themselves the right to make changes in agreements without notice.


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Thanks for the EULAlyzer tip! Will download & take a look at it. I was guilty of assuming that just because I had read the EULA when I originally bought the McAfee FW, the EULA hadn't changed. WRONG! They snuck that little tidbit into the EULA (without public announcement)sometime between Dec 2004 and March 2006.
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onDvine
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said by buttoni See Profile :

... Moral of this story: READ THOSE EULA'S WORD FOR WORD!!!!!
OR at least use EULAlyzer to "read" them for you and bring your attention to stuff you may wish you'd known about later.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. ▪G. K. Chesterton


buttoni
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McAfee has started using this practice. Used to be you had to manually/verbally request Auto-Renewal (which I never did). Now they have the Auto-Renewal clause built in (more like buried in)the EULA. But when they charged me for a renewal I didn't want (tired of update issues & memory bloat), one call to customer service resulted in a refund being initiated both courteously & immediately (very same day). A few weeks later they called for feedback as to why we discontinued our McAfee. I was brutally honest.

Moral of this story: READ THOSE EULA'S WORD FOR WORD!!!!!
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