OK...I got snookered....by a long time friend and Chairman of a company called Comodo that has been putting out a press release every week touting its products, many of which are free (the trojan horse to selling its primary product, SSL certificates).
After getting CEO emails to 'friends/investors' every week for past three years i.e. 'our latest and greatest accomplishments"---and even recommending the company to numerous friends, I finally downloaded the 'latest free anti-virus and free firewall apps... What a mistake...my laptop imploded and several hard drive extensions were corrupted....in the course of a 4 hour support call with Dell, it was determined this software was the root of the problem...I emailed the CEO of Comodo..who promptly responded with "this is a known problem with the Beta version" (which was introduced 2 months ago and is being heavily touted by the company)
Since the company isn't big enough to provide live tech support, the CEO pointed me to a blog where users contribute fixes to problems....bottom line, I've blown an entire day and have had to wipe out the OS and re-install, losing personal settings/configurations for (3) shared users..
Moral to the story: Don't download any free software---even if being promoted by someone that you had trusted.
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