[Discuss] Anyone Else?

John Blomfield jabfield at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 19 16:45:31 PDT 2008


Murray Strome wrote:
> Andrew Willard wrote:
>> By now most of you, using the Shaw network for internet access, have 
>> received
>> this email.
>>
>> Here is the link to this remarkable software that Shaw is forcing their
>> subscribers to use: http://shawsecure.shaw.ca/index.html
>>
>> Wow... nothing but Windows. I wonder how the OSX users feel? Or BSD? Or
>> anything else that out of the box is more secure than Windows?
>>
> This software has been available for a long time. I did try it on my 
> old laptop and another Windows XP computer. I also tried it with Vista 
> which did not work.  I soon abandoned it, even for Windows which I 
> don't use very often.  There are other things that work a lot better 
> for Windows unless they have improved it a lot in the past couple of 
> years.
>
I have Shaw's F-Secure working just fine on three machines running, 
Windows 2000, XP and Vista respectively.

John

> My modem must be really old, as it doesn't have the switch you are 
> talking about.  When I bought it, Shaw told me that it was guaranteed 
> for as long as I am using Shaw (or maybe longer).
>
> I have not received the E-mail you mentioned.
>
> Murray
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