"Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

"free updates for life" is fairytale marketing crapola.

ThunderByte was the only AV company that ever made a serious
effort to honour their "free updates for life" promise, but "life"
ended the instant Norman bought them out. Perfect timing that
saved ThunderByte from going broke.

It is economically impossible for an AV company to provide free
updates forever with 1000+ new threats appearing each day.







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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:03:38 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
<nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote:

years ago. The company's name was ThunderByte and part of my
motivation to pay for their program was... that it was a Dutch
company. :-)
I am Dutch too and I was proud of them. (nowadays there is not much
reason anymore for being proud of Dutch nationality but that is
another story)
I do remember too that notwithstanding their promise of "free updates
for life", when they made a mayor update to their AV-program because
of adapting it to a new version of Windows, they asked to pay again.
But that seemed alright to me and I paid again.
Then of course came their buying themselves out to Norman and I
unwillingly became a member of that company and later went to Norton.
Now I only use the freeware version of Avira Antivir...
History, all nostalgia now. :-)

Massimo