F-Secure 2014 for ISPs?
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Some useful info:
I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting my ISP product: why it's always an old FS version, what version is it exactly, why some functionality is missing(turns out banking protection was deleted by ISP) etc.
Since I never got an answer from my ISP I decided last month to check one last time: No new version! So I abandoned the ISP product and got the product directly from FS.
All problems solved and I got the latest version for the first time! (and for about the same price too)
I went directly from IS 2013 release 2(which was NOT the latest 2013 release), to FS 2014. I'm not sure exactly but I think 2013 release 2 is almost a year old !!!
Actually I got ONE answer from my ISP on why I should get the product from them:
- It's more convenient. You only have to pay us, so you get one bill instead of two.
Now I know I have the latest version, and I know all functionality is available in the product! I''ll get 2 bills, so what
Lesson learned: I'll probably get all future products from the original company.
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The most rational reason that I found behind ISP's issue is that older year versions (I.e. 2013) are more bugfree and usually tend to be more polished(same as for business products - they use "technology" used in previous year's home products; It's not only for F-Secure, all companies do that)). But I'm not sure in case of your ISP, that you hadn't even latest 2013 release. Which makes your ISP officially jerk
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Yes, that's how I've understood it too. They wan't to use an older stable and more bugfree version, which in my case was 1 year old. I think other people should know this since it's a large ISP: Bredbandsbolaget(BBB).
The problem however was that they could never even answer exactly what version they provided.
I had to install the product and try figure that out for myself by checking version numbers for Launch Pad, Computer Security and then read a lot of release documents to find a match.
To sum up my suggestion in choosing product:
If you're a non-tech person I think it's ok to use an ISP version.
But if you always want the latest product and want to use new functionality directly after beta testing is approved: Get the product directly from F-Secure!
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