From: Mark Roberts
CheekyGeek wrote:
>To echo previous comments, there are minor upgrade (point releases)
>such as from 3.0 to 3.1 (etc.) and then there are major upgrades, such
>as from 2.x to 3. Generally, education versions are not
>major-upgradable (or if they are they are priced high enough that you
>would be better off just buying a fresh education copy of the new
>release.
>
>I also suspect that even if the serial number is in the box, the
>application is made to "phone home" to make sure that the serial
>number is an authorized one and not a serial crack. On Mac's the
>"phone home" can be optionally prevented with a program called "Li'l
>Snitch". Not sure if an equivalent program is out there for Windoze.
ZoneAlarm is the Windows equivalent. Very, very good and it's
freeware. You can also block egress with a hosts file.
*Nothing* on my computer is allowed to phone home unless it's
absolutely necessary for the program to function *and* I give explicit
permission.
I probably need to update my hosts file.
Does anyone know if ZoneAlarm plays nice with AVG Free anti-virus software?
I used ZoneAlarm several years ago on a different computer and liked it
enough to buy the upgrade from the free version, but it didn't work well
with Semantec Antivirus (mandated by DoD at a time when what the DoD
wanted still mattered to me)
... seemed to work fine with Norton Antivirus, but when "Norton" became
"Semantec", they really screwed things up.
Understand that was true with a lot of security software people were using.
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