iBurst Protects Subscribers With Security Suite

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Anybody subscribed to this? Is it worth it, or should one rather just stick to the free versions like Zone Alarm for a firewall?

The wireless broadband provider’s 24 000 customers will have the option of entering into a 12 month iBurst PC Security Suite subscription at the affordable rate of R12 per month for Virus Protection, Anti-Spyware and a Desktop firewall.
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One anyways get the McAfee updates SDAT***.exe for free to download.
 
^ Yep, its not really meant for us guys. It is a nice deal for people new to the internet or to permanently connected internet.

BTW, i found this usefull yet noone seems to have mentioned it yet, but the email2fax service now exists too. It costs R30pm and then a small fee for each fax, but you have to buy fax bundles.
Still usefull to be able to have an entire faxing solution without a expensive faxmachine, and all on your PC.

Oh, wow and alot of new towers this week too. Atleast they realy are deliverying on that..
 
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Afaik the first ADSL customers got Norton Security Suite from Telkom as part of their package.
 
Garsfontein = Pretoria, near Woodhill but behind the hill so most of the mansions are still broadbandless.
 
Well the important thing here is, get the Cape Town towers up.
I know we had a few latley, but geesh leave Gauteng alone already.. JHB has like 50 basestations and everywhere else has 12 max.

okay, so no real complaint, I just want *my* new tower..
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Well the important thing here is, get the Cape Town towers up.
I know we had a few latley, but geesh leave Gauteng alone already.. JHB has like 50 basestations and everywhere else has 12 max.

okay, so no real complaint, I just want *my* new tower..
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Yes, u guessed it, a comment about the crap northcliff tower....

You can take my northcliff tower if you really want one...it'll be good riddance to bad rubbish.
 
Tjorriemorrie said:
Yes, u guessed it, a comment about the crap northcliff tower....

You can take my northcliff tower if you really want one...it'll be good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Oh, no no its okay thanks. :p
The thing is that my new tower will have a nice 1 or 0 load. My curretn one even only has 1 load during the day.

I think that makes pretty much the biggest difference to signal, its even more important than strength if you signal is above 70% or so..
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
All in JHB I think.. well Gauteng at least

Garsfontein
Vereeniging
Woodmead
North Riding and Kya Sands
Improved Signal in Norwood
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Northriding and Kya Sands? I ruddy hope so! Have been on the Olivedale tower at really cr@p speeds for months now. Hopefully a tower in KS will sort that problem out.

Where did you come across this info?
 
JasonX said:
Anybody subscribed to this? Is it worth it, or should one rather just stick to the free versions like Zone Alarm for a firewall?

"The wireless broadband provider’s 24 000 customers will have the option of entering into a 12 month iBurst PC Security Suite subscription at the affordable rate of R12 per month for Virus Protection, Anti-Spyware and a Desktop firewall."

One anyways get the McAfee updates SDAT***.exe for free to download.
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the number of hits i get on my firewall from worms from other iburst's IPs tells me that there are people out there that need it
 
hmm, thats weird. I thought they would only be posted on there when they come live.

Well you can always double check it with teh status page, when they are on there and have a green light they should really be live.
 
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It's a reasonable price for the AV protection as well as the firewall, but I don't like the programs they use. I guess it's just one's personal choice. I'm using AVG Free and the default Windows Firewall and have never had any serious problems.
 
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